> Thank you for the explanation and sorry for not realizing the correct > deallocation function. > > I found in another email thread that the NULL initialization following > the __free() was mainly for readability but not safety. Sorry for the > confusion. > > We are working on a static analysis tool and wanted to report > potential bugs. We directly sent a patch trying to reduce developer’s > burden but didn’t not realize the correct use of Reported-by tag. We > will be more careful in the future. Please take another look at another corresponding public information source. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/researcher-guidelines.rst?h=v6.12-rc1#n5 Regards, Markus