linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with _

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Message-ID: <96d8ddb6c04651224fc66bca825ba99292fc8f87.camel@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:58:32 +0530
From: ally heev <allyheev@...il.com>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>, Dwaipayan Ray	
 <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>, Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>, Joe
 Perches	 <joe@...ches.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Andy
 Whitcroft	 <apw@...onical.com>
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	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>,
 David Hunter <david.hunter.linux@...il.com>, Shuah Khan
 <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>, Viresh Kumar	 <vireshk@...nel.org>, Nishanth
 Menon <nm@...com>, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,  linux-pm
 <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>, dan.j.williams@...el.com, Geert Uytterhoeven	
 <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with
 __free attribute check

On Sat, 2025-11-22 at 14:01 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
[...]
> I saw the other discussion and Linus re-iterated old approach/syntax
> preference, thus I think this should also include it, since it is de
> facto a coding style:
> 
> "Pointers with __free attribute should be declared in the place of use
> and initialized (see include/linux/cleanup.h)......"
> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof

Yes. I am planning to do it in v5 along with coding style doc update