Re: [v2 1/2] soc: fsl: dpio: Use scope-based resource management in dpaa2_io_store_create()

Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.ozlabs.lists.linuxppc-dev,org.infradead.lists.linux-arm-kernel,org.kernel.vger.kernel-janitors,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
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>> Scope-based resource management became supported for some
>> programming interfaces by contributions of Peter Zijlstra on 2023-05-26.
>> See also the commit 54da6a0924311c7cf5015533991e44fb8eb12773 ("locking:
>> Introduce __cleanup() based infrastructure").
>>
>> * Thus use the attribute “__free(kfree)”.
>>
>> * Reduce the scope for the local variable “ret”.
> 
> Please don't. Let all the variables be defined at the start of each function.

Do we stumble on another coding style preferences conflict here?
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v7.2-rc4/source/include/linux/cleanup.h#L142-L146


>> * Omit two kfree() calls accordingly.
>>
>> * Omit the local variable “size” (for another memory allocation).
> 
> Please remove this change, not related to the intention of the patch.
What does hinder to perform the required size determination as a direct parameter
for a kzalloc() call?

Regards,
Markus
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