[PATCH v2] kexec: Replace the goto out_unlock with out
Andrew Morton
akpm at linux-foundation.org
Tue Dec 16 11:11:39 PST 2025
On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:55:18 +0800 Qiang Ma <maqianga at uniontech.com> wrote:
> The image is initialized to NULL. Then, after calling kimage_alloc_init,
> we can directly goto 'out' because at this time, the kimage_free will
> determine whether image is a NULL pointer.
>
> This will prepare for the subsequent patch to reset the variable in
> kimage_free.
There doesn't seem to be a benefit to applying this patch unless the
"subsequent patch" is also applied. So wouldn't a two-patch series be
more appropriate?
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