On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> wrote: > > This patch series builds on the allocation function attributes > added in 24.11 release. These annotations will allow for compiler > to flag cases where a pointer is allocated with one function > but incorrectly passed to a different free function. > > The current code base does this correctly now, but adding > attributes will catch future bugs, or errors in user programs. > > For each of these patches, the free function prototype > needs to be reordered to be before the function attribute > of the allocator. > > Checkpatch perl script falsely complains in a couple patches > because it doesn't really understand C syntax for attributes. > > Note: this won't work for functions that are marked experimental. > The problem is that function attribute for deallocator can't handle the > case of experimental API. Even if the function in question is experimental > the use of experimental free function in the attribute attribute causes > problems. > > v6 - drop the pipeline patch (see note)
You forgot to drop the associated RN. Also fixed the list of functions in RN as an empty line was missing. Series applied, thanks. -- David Marchand
