RE: [PATCH] soc: fsl: guts: us devm_kstrdup_const() for RO data

[Leo Li <leoyang.li@nxp.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 8:44 PM
> To: Leo Li <leoyang.li@nxp.com>
> Cc: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>; linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH] soc: fsl: guts: us devm_kstrdup_const() for RO data
> 
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 01:43:01PM -0600, Li Yang wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 2:02 AM Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 08:29:56PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2018-12-07 at 09:22 +0100, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> > > > > devm_kstrdup() may return NULL if internal allocation failed,
> > > > > but as  machine  is from the device tree, and thus RO,
> > > > > devm_kstrdup_const() can be used here, which will only copy the
> reference.
> > > >
> > > > Is it really going to only copy the reference?  That would require
> > > > that
> > > > is_kernel_rodata(machine) be true, which it shouldn't be since
> > > > it's not part of the kernel image.
> > > >
> > > I had tried to figure out what is RO and what not but was not able
> > > to determine that - from the discussion it seemed that the
> > > assumption of RO is correct though I did not ask if it would satisfy
> > > is_kernel_rodata() so that explains the incorrect assertion.
> > > see
> > >
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> > >
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> > > So then the only option is to check the return and cleanup on
> > > allocation failure as the orriginal patch proposed.
> >
> > Thanks for the good discussion. I will drop the previous patch. But
> > would it also be good to just have "soc_dev_attr.machine = machine"
> > directly?
> >
> I think that the intent is to switch to managed devm API so that the cleanup is
> handled properly currently you would get "machine" from
> of_property_read_string_index
>   -> of_property_read_string_helper
>    -> of_find_property
> which does not do any allocation - so there would actually not be anything to
> cleanup here - don´t see why your solution would not be suitable given the
> current API. the only advantage of the devm_kstrdup() is that underlying
> APIs internal changes would have no effect.

Thanks.  I will sent out a new version.

Regards,
Leo