Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: make __free(kfree) accept error pointers

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On Sun, 28 Apr 2024, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> Currently, if an automatically freed allocation is an error pointer that
> will lead to a crash.  An example of this is in wm831x_gpio_dbg_show().
> 
>    171	char *label __free(kfree) = gpiochip_dup_line_label(chip, i);
>    172	if (IS_ERR(label)) {
>    173		dev_err(wm831x->dev, "Failed to duplicate label\n");
>    174		continue;
>    175  }
> 
> The auto clean up function should check for error pointers as well,
> otherwise we're going to keep hitting issues like this.
> 
> Fixes: 54da6a092431 ("locking: Introduce __cleanup() based infrastructure")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>




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