linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-ops.c: Fix a crash due to incorrect cleanup usage of kfree

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Message-ID: <9e6ce015-5bd1-435f-ad07-d634326a9335@web.de>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 18:06:33 +0100
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Ella Ma <alansnape3058@...il.com>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
 Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, John Allen <john.allen@....com>,
 Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-ops.c: Fix a crash due to
 incorrect cleanup usage of kfree

> Annotating a local pointer variable, which will be assigned with the
> kmalloc-family functions, with the `__cleanup(kfree)` attribute will
…

Would an other subsystem specification be preferred for the patch subject?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/log/drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-ops.c

Regards,
Markus