[PATCH v4 4/6] mm/slab: Add __free() support for kvfree

[Dan Williams]

Allow for the declaration of variables that trigger kvfree() when they
go out of scope. The check for NULL and call to kvfree() can be elided
by the compiler in most cases, otherwise without the NULL check an
unnecessary call to kvfree() may be emitted. Peter proposed a comment
for this detail [1].

Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/20230816103102.GF980931@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [1]
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/slab.h |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 8228d1276a2f..df4c2d45bb86 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -763,6 +763,8 @@ static inline __alloc_size(1, 2) void *kvcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t fla
 extern void *kvrealloc(const void *p, size_t oldsize, size_t newsize, gfp_t flags)
 		      __realloc_size(3);
 extern void kvfree(const void *addr);
+DEFINE_FREE(kvfree, void *, if (_T) kvfree(_T))
+
 extern void kvfree_sensitive(const void *addr, size_t len);
 
 unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *s);