On Sat, 16 Mar 2024 12:44:40 +0300 Dan Carpenter wrote: > - struct ice_aqc_get_phy_caps_data *pcaps __free(kfree); > - void *mac_buf __free(kfree); > + struct ice_aqc_get_phy_caps_data *pcaps __free(kfree) = NULL; > + void *mac_buf __free(kfree) = NULL; This is just trading one kind of bug for another, and the __free() magic is at a cost of readability. I think we should ban the use of __free() in all of networking, until / unless it cleanly handles the NULL init case.