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* [PATCH] mm: util: update the kerneldoc for kstrdup_const()
@ 2020-06-28 15:25 Bartosz Golaszewski
  2020-06-28 17:37 ` Joe Perches
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Bartosz Golaszewski @ 2020-06-28 15:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: linux-mm, linux-kernel, Bartosz Golaszewski

From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>

Memory allocated with kstrdup_const() must not be passed to regular
krealloc() as it is not aware of the possibility of the chunk residing
in .rodata. Since there are no potential users of krealloc_const()
at the moment, let's just update the doc to make it explicit.

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
---
 mm/util.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index c63c8e47be57..27d6155edb8f 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrdup);
  * @s: the string to duplicate
  * @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
  *
- * Note: Strings allocated by kstrdup_const should be freed by kfree_const.
+ * Note: Strings allocated by kstrdup_const should be freed by kfree_const and
+ * must not be passed to krealloc().
  *
  * Return: source string if it is in .rodata section otherwise
  * fallback to kstrdup.
-- 
2.26.1



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