* + kernfs-convert-node-name-allocation-to-kstrdup_const.patch added to -mm tree
@ 2015-01-13 23:49 akpm
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From: akpm @ 2015-01-13 23:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: a.hajda, cl, geert, greg, iamjoonsoo.kim, kyungmin.park,
m.szyprowski, mturquette, penberg, rientjes, tj, viro,
mm-commits
The patch titled
Subject: kernfs: convert node name allocation to kstrdup_const
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
kernfs-convert-node-name-allocation-to-kstrdup_const.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kernfs-convert-node-name-allocation-to-kstrdup_const.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kernfs-convert-node-name-allocation-to-kstrdup_const.patch
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From: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
Subject: kernfs: convert node name allocation to kstrdup_const
sysfs frequently performs duplication of strings located in read-only
memory section. Replacing kstrdup by kstrdup_const allows to avoid such
operations.
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Cc: Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
fs/kernfs/dir.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/kernfs/dir.c~kernfs-convert-node-name-allocation-to-kstrdup_const fs/kernfs/dir.c
--- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c~kernfs-convert-node-name-allocation-to-kstrdup_const
+++ a/fs/kernfs/dir.c
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ void kernfs_put(struct kernfs_node *kn)
if (kernfs_type(kn) == KERNFS_LINK)
kernfs_put(kn->symlink.target_kn);
if (!(kn->flags & KERNFS_STATIC_NAME))
- kfree(kn->name);
+ kfree_const(kn->name);
if (kn->iattr) {
if (kn->iattr->ia_secdata)
security_release_secctx(kn->iattr->ia_secdata,
@@ -502,12 +502,12 @@ static struct kernfs_node *__kernfs_new_
const char *name, umode_t mode,
unsigned flags)
{
- char *dup_name = NULL;
+ const char *dup_name = NULL;
struct kernfs_node *kn;
int ret;
if (!(flags & KERNFS_STATIC_NAME)) {
- name = dup_name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
+ name = dup_name = kstrdup_const(name, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!name)
return NULL;
}
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ static struct kernfs_node *__kernfs_new_
err_out2:
kmem_cache_free(kernfs_node_cache, kn);
err_out1:
- kfree(dup_name);
+ kfree_const(dup_name);
return NULL;
}
@@ -1260,7 +1260,7 @@ int kernfs_rename_ns(struct kernfs_node
/* rename kernfs_node */
if (strcmp(kn->name, new_name) != 0) {
error = -ENOMEM;
- new_name = kstrdup(new_name, GFP_KERNEL);
+ new_name = kstrdup_const(new_name, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new_name)
goto out;
} else {
@@ -1293,7 +1293,7 @@ int kernfs_rename_ns(struct kernfs_node
kernfs_link_sibling(kn);
kernfs_put(old_parent);
- kfree(old_name);
+ kfree_const(old_name);
error = 0;
out:
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from a.hajda@samsung.com are
mm-util-add-kstrdup_const.patch
kernfs-convert-node-name-allocation-to-kstrdup_const.patch
clk-convert-clock-name-allocations-to-kstrdup_const.patch
mm-slab-convert-cache-name-allocations-to-kstrdup_const.patch
fs-namespace-convert-devname-allocation-to-kstrdup_const.patch
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