Vincenzo Mezzela 1b48fbbc03 drivers: cacheinfo: use __free attribute instead of of_node_put() ...

Introduce the __free attribute for scope-based resource management.
Resources allocated with __free are automatically released at the end of
the scope. This enhancement aims to mitigate memory management issues
associated with forgetting to release resources by utilizing __free
instead of of_node_put().

To introduce this feature, some modifications to the code structure were
necessary. The original pattern:
```
prev = np;
while(...) {
  [...]
  np = of_find_next_cache_node(np);
  of_node_put(prev);
  prev = np;
  [...]
}
```
has been updated to:
```
while(...) {
  [...]
  struct device_node __free(device_node) *prev = np;
  np =  of_find_next_cache_node(np)
  [...]
}
```
With this change, the previous node is automatically cleaned up at the end
of each iteration, allowing the elimination of all of_node_put() calls and
some goto statements.

Suggested-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Mezzela <vincenzo.mezzela@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240719151335.869145-1-vincenzo.mezzela@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

2024-07-31 13:56:34 +02:00

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