linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 4/5] KVM: arm64: Register ptdump with debugfs on guest creation

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Message-ID: <ZtWdyKtw8EGYlJz5@google.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 12:13:12 +0100
From: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@...gle.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
Cc: Sebastian Ene <sebastianene@...gle.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alexghiti@...osinc.com, ankita@...dia.com, ardb@...nel.org,
	catalin.marinas@....com, christophe.leroy@...roup.eu,
	james.morse@....com, mark.rutland@....com, oliver.upton@...ux.dev,
	rananta@...gle.com, ryan.roberts@....com, shahuang@...hat.com,
	suzuki.poulose@....com, will@...nel.org, yuzenghui@...wei.com,
	kvmarm@...ts.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 4/5] KVM: arm64: Register ptdump with debugfs on guest
 creation

[...]

> > > +static int kvm_ptdump_guest_open(struct inode *m, struct file *file)
> > > +{
> > > +	struct kvm *kvm = m->i_private;
> > > +	struct kvm_ptdump_guest_state *st;
> > > +	int ret;
> > > +
> > > +	if (!kvm_get_kvm_safe(kvm))
> > > +		return -ENOENT;
> > > +
> > > +	st = kvm_ptdump_parser_create(kvm);
> > > +	if (IS_ERR(st)) {
> > > +		ret = PTR_ERR(st);
> > > +		goto free_with_kvm_ref;
> > > +	}
> > > +
> > > +	ret = single_open(file, kvm_ptdump_guest_show, st);
> > > +	if (!ret)
> > > +		return 0;
> > > +
> > > +	kfree(st);
> > > +free_with_kvm_ref:
> > 
> > nit: I believe kfree understands IS_ERR() so you could have a simple "err:"
> > label covering all the error path.
> 
> I couldn't find such handling in kfree(). Could you point be to it?

My aplogies, I was confused by the DEFINE_FREE(kfree ...) for __free(). kfree()
only checks for null ptr.

Although, I wonder if the naming "free_with_kvm_ref" isn't an artifact from
previous code? Nothing is freeed here. So perhaps err_with_kvm_ref? which could
be shorten as this is the only label?

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