Re: [PATCH 6.12 289/337] mm/slab: prevent unbounded recursion in free path with new kmalloc type

On Sat, Aug 08, 2026 at 07:10:33AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 11:02:45AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> >   linux/mm/slab.h:572:24: error: duplicate 'inline' declaration specifier [-Werror,-Wduplicate-decl-specifier]
> >     572 | static __always_inline inline bool need_kmalloc_no_objext(void)
> > 
> > The 'inline' should be dropped, as '__always_inline' includes 'inline'
> > already.

Ouch, thanks for catching.
It's silly that I didn't catch it while testing.

> Fixed in the queue - I dropped the redundant 'inline' and kept
> '__always_inline', so the 6.12 backport now reads:
> 
>   static __always_inline bool need_kmalloc_no_objext(void)

Looks good to me, thanks for fixing!