linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v2 1/9] lib: string_helpers: provide kfree

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Message-ID: <3ba6779e11684ec8bc32638aa67ab952@AcuMS.aculab.com>
Date:   Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:10:10 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Joe Perches' <joe@...ches.com>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
CC:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Kent Gibson" <warthog618@...il.com>,
        "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-doc <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 1/9] lib: string_helpers: provide kfree_strarray()

From: Joe Perches
> Sent: 28 September 2020 17:07
> 
> On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 18:02 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 5:59 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 12:41 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
> > > >
> > > > There's a common pattern of dynamically allocating an array of char
> > > > pointers and then also dynamically allocating each string in this
> > > > array. Provide a helper for freeing such a string array with one call.
> > >
> > > Isn't this also common for things like ring buffers?
> > > Why limit this to char *[]?
> > >
> >
> > I don't want to add APIs nobody is using. What do you suggest?
> 
> Change the argument to void** and call it
> 
> void kfree_array(void **array, int count);

Does help, void doesn't work that way.

	David

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