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Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:05:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hu-ckantibh-hyd.qualcomm.com ([202.46.23.25]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d2e1a72fcca58-829f6dc2d0asm101660b3a.13.2026.03.10.13.05.16 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:05:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Sanjay Chitroda X-Google-Original-From: Sanjay Chitroda To: jic23@kernel.org, m.tretter@pengutronix.de, mchehab@kernel.org, p.zabel@pengutronix.de, tiffany.lin@mediatek.com, andrew-ct.chen@mediatek.com, yunfei.dong@mediatek.com, matthias.bgg@gmail.com, angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com, johan@kernel.org, elder@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, pure.logic@nexus-software.ie Cc: dlechner@baylibre.com, nuno.sa@analog.com, andy@kernel.org, kernel@pengutronix.de, kees@kernel.org, nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz, marcelo.schmitt1@gmail.com, maudspierings@gocontroll.com, hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org, ribalda@chromium.org, straube.linux@gmail.com, dan.carpenter@linaro.org, lukagejak5@gmail.com, ethantidmore06@gmail.com, samasth.norway.ananda@oracle.com, karanja99erick@gmail.com, s9430939@naver.com, tglx@kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, sun.jian.kdev@gmail.com, weibu@redadmin.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, sanjayembeddedse@gmail.com, skhan@linuxfoundation.org Subject: [PATCH 0/7] drivers: Simplify cleanup paths using __free Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:35:06 +0530 Message-Id: <20260310200513.2162018-1-sanjayembedded@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.34.1 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Sanjay Chitroda Hi all, This patch series replaces manual cleanup and explicit kfree() calls with the __free attribute from . This modernizes the memory management style and simplifies common error paths without altering any functional behavior. The __free attribute provides automatic scope-based cleanup, making resource management clearer and reducing the chances of missing cleanup on early returns. No functional changes are intended in this series. Testing: - Compiled with W=1 - Build-tested on i86_64 Based on: Feel free to share your valuable input in context of the cleanup API. Thanks, Sanjay Chitroda Sanjay Chitroda (7): staging: greybus: simplify cleanup using __free iio: ssp_sensors: simplify cleanup using __free iio: st_sensors: simplify cleanup using __free media: mediatek: vcodec: simplify cleanup using __free media: chips-media: coda: simplify cleanup using __free media: allegro: simplify cleanup using __free staging: rtl8723bs: simplify cleanup using __free drivers/iio/common/ssp_sensors/ssp_spi.c | 9 +- .../iio/common/st_sensors/st_sensors_core.c | 7 +- .../media/platform/allegro-dvt/allegro-core.c | 95 +++++-------------- .../platform/chips-media/coda/coda-bit.c | 4 +- .../platform/chips-media/coda/coda-jpeg.c | 39 ++++---- .../mediatek/vcodec/common/mtk_vcodec_dbgfs.c | 3 +- drivers/staging/greybus/camera.c | 27 ++---- drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c | 35 +++----- drivers/staging/greybus/raw.c | 6 +- .../staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723b_hal_init.c | 13 +-- drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/sdio_ops.c | 37 ++------ 11 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 197 deletions(-) -- 2.34.1