--- Sumit Narayan <[email protected]> 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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