Re: [PATCH] include/linux/slab.h: new KFREE() macro.

[Amit Choudhary]

--- Sumit Narayan <talk2sumit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Asking for KFREE is as silly as asking for a macro to check if kmalloc
> succeeded for a pointer, else return ENOMEM.
> 
> #define CKMALLOC(p,x) \
>    do {   \
>        p = kmalloc(x, GFP_KERNEL); \
>        if(!p) return -ENOMEM; \
>     } while(0)
> 

There are bugs with this approach. This introduces error path leaks. If you have allocated some
memory earlier, then you got to free them.

-Amit

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