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regmap: define cleanup helper for regmap_field
authorSander Vanheule <sander@svanheule.net>
Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:01:12 +0000 (17:01 +0100)
committerMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:53:51 +0000 (15:53 +0000)
commit37983fad7f3ef296fa0504c8e945987459dc5487
treed084b82bcd41c6b62155bcd0e6b40a0aa7bee850
parent38ab6557234d8629407a824be90e82514d6129a0
regmap: define cleanup helper for regmap_field

For temporary field allocation, the user has to perform manual cleanup,
or rely on devm_regmap_field_alloc() to (eventually) clean up the
allocated resources when an error occurs.

Add a cleanup helper that takes care of freeing the allocated
regmap_field whenever it goes out of scope.

This can simplify this example:

    struct regmap_field *field = regmap_field_alloc(...);
    if (IS_ERR(field))
        return PTR_ERR(field);

    int err = regmap_field_read(...);
    if (err)
        goto out;

    /* some logic that may also error */

    err = regmap_field_write(...);

  out:
    regmap_field_free(field);

    return err;

into the shorter:

    struct regmap_field *field __free(regmap_field) = regmap_field_alloc(...);
    if (IS_ERR(field))
        return PTR_ERR(field);

    int err = regmap_field_read(...);
    if (err)
        return err;

    /* some logic that may also error */

    return regmap_field_write(...);

Signed-off-by: Sander Vanheule <sander@svanheule.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260220160112.543391-2-sander@svanheule.net
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
include/linux/regmap.h