if (!status->status.ok()) {
    return nullptr;
  }

  TF_DataType dtype = TFE_TensorHandleDataType(components[0].get());
  // Verify that the combined TensorHandle's dtype matches all of the component
  // dtypes.
  for (TensorHandlePtr& component : components) {
    TFE_TensorHandleGetStatus(component.get(), status);
    if (!status->status.ok()) {
      return nullptr;
    }

  // Note that `matches` is allocated by the plugin and freed by core
  // TensorFlow, so we need to use `plugin_memory_free_` here.
  char** matches = nullptr;
  const int num_matches = ops_->get_matching_paths(
      filesystem_.get(), pattern.c_str(), &matches, plugin_status.get());
  if (num_matches >= 0) {
    for (int i = 0; i < num_matches; i++) {
      result->push_back(std::string(matches[i]));

// TFE_NewTensorHandleFromDeviceMemory.
void DeallocatorWrapperFunc(void* data, size_t len, void* dlmt_vptr) {
  TFE_CallDLManagedTensorDeleter(dlmt_vptr);
}

// Checks whether the stride array matches the layout of compact, row-majored
// data.
bool IsValidStrideCompactRowMajorData(int64_t* shape_arr, int64_t* stride_arr,
                                      int ndim) {
  bool valid = true;