linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: fix uninitialized pointers with free attr

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Message-ID: <aR2AWjHTtCszByqX@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:31:22 -0800
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: ally heev <allyheev@...il.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: fix uninitialized pointers with free attr

On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 12:26:56PM +0530, ally heev wrote:
> As per the ongoing discussion
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/58fd478f408a34b578ee8d949c5c4b4da4d4f41d.camel@HansenPartnership.com/
> , I believe there are no changes required here

What about just dropping that __free thing that just make the code
harder to read and more buggy?