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authorDmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com>2026-06-02 07:12:53 +0000
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2026-06-03 11:38:48 +0200
commita13ab9dd6eb2a89f14b466c3884730ea7969253f (patch)
treee7e5ac5e2898ce7bc23514d4164a574f04c380d6 /rust/kernel/alloc
parent22302af28d3f7c3ca38536978c80db51d2a9e283 (diff)
cleanup: Remove NULL check from unconditional guards
The unconditional guard destructors check whether the lock pointer is NULL before unlocking. This check is dead code because unconditional guards guarantee a non-NULL lock pointer at destructor time. DEFINE_GUARD() runs the lock operation unconditionally in the constructor. If the pointer were NULL, the lock operation (e.g. mutex_lock(NULL)) would crash before the constructor returns. The destructor never runs with a NULL pointer. All DEFINE_GUARD() users dereference the pointer in their lock. Verified by auditing every instance found by: git grep -n -A 1 'DEFINE_GUARD('. The only exception is xe_pm_runtime_release_only, whose constructor is a noop, but it has no callers. __DEFINE_UNLOCK_GUARD() has only a few usages outside of include/linux/cleanup.h: tty_port_tty (NULL-checks in its tty_kref_put() call), irqdesc_lock (fixed earlier) and two guards in kernel/sched/sched.h (dereference the pointer unconditionally in their lock constructors). DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1() sets .lock from its argument and runs the lock operation in the constructor. Same reasoning applies. All DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1() users dereference the pointer in their lock. Also, verified by auditing every match of: git grep -n 'DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1('. DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_0() hardcodes .lock = (void *)1 in the constructor, so it is never NULL by construction. Conditional (_try) variants: DEFINE_GUARD_COND() and DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1_COND() use EXTEND_CLASS_COND(), whose wrapper destructor returns early when the lock was not acquired, before reaching the base destructor since commit 2deccd5c862a ("cleanup: Optimize guards"): if (_cond) return; class_##_name##_destructor(_T); As compiled by GCC-11 with defconfig on top of the locking/core: Total: Before=23889980, After=23834334, chg -0.23% Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0503a089389b2270c478a873e095cf0a4ff26d24.1780064327.git.d@ilvokhin.com
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