linux-kernel - Re: Buggy __free(kfree) usage pattern already in tree

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Date:   Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:50:48 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Buggy __free(kfree) usage pattern already in tree

On Fri, 15 Sept 2023 at 14:32, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
>
>
> It also got me thinking about named_guard() for the myriad of
> conditional locks we have.
>
>         named_guard(try_mutex, foo_guard)(&foo->lock);
>         if (foo_guard) {
>                 // we got the lock, do our thing
>         }

Hmm. It looks ugly to me. I really hate the "named_guard" thing. One
of the reasons I liked the guard/scoped_guard() macros was because how
it created _anonymous_ guards, and made it completely unnecessary to
make up a pointless name.

If trylock ends up being a common pattern, I think we should strive to
make it a lot easier to use.

Can we make it act like "scoped_guard()", except the lock function is
fundamentally conditional?

Call it "cond_guard()", and make the syntax otherwise be the same as
"scoped_guard()", iow, using a unique ID for the guard name.

So

        cond_guard(try_mutex)(&foo->lock) {
                .. this is the "we got the lock" region ..
        }

would I think be a much better syntax.

Could we live with that?

               Linus