[PATCH 0/7] drivers: Simplify cleanup paths using __free

[Luka Gejak]

Dear Sanjay,
Would you mind explaining why you put so many people into TO and CC
fields when sending patch series. You should stick to maintainers and
reviewers from maintainers file as others can still see it on the
mailing list(that's why you CC kernel mailing.list related emails).
Sincerely Luka Gejak
P.S. If you are including me in further discussions or patch series
please use luka.gejak at linux.dev instead of lukagejak5 at gmail.com.
Thanks in advance.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 9:05 PM Sanjay Chitroda
<sanjayembeddedse at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Sanjay Chitroda <sanjayembeddedse at gmail.com>
>
> Hi all,
>
> This patch series replaces manual cleanup and explicit kfree() calls with
> the __free attribute from <linux/cleanup.h>. 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:
>   <linux-v7.0-rc2>
>
> 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
>