Users often pass a pointer to a static string to gpiochip_add_data() family of functions. Avoid unnecessary memory allocations with the provided helper routine.
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]> --- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c index 56eec094184c..c078f7f35100 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c @@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ static void gpiodevice_release(struct device *dev) list_del(&gdev->list); ida_simple_remove(&gpio_ida, gdev->id); - kfree(gdev->label); + kfree_const(gdev->label); kfree(gdev->descs); kfree(gdev); } @@ -1171,9 +1171,9 @@ int gpiochip_add_data_with_key(struct gpio_chip *chip, void *data, } if (chip->label) - gdev->label = kstrdup(chip->label, GFP_KERNEL); + gdev->label = kstrdup_const(chip->label, GFP_KERNEL); else - gdev->label = kstrdup("unknown", GFP_KERNEL); + gdev->label = kstrdup_const("unknown", GFP_KERNEL); if (!gdev->label) { status = -ENOMEM; goto err_free_descs; @@ -1294,7 +1294,7 @@ int gpiochip_add_data_with_key(struct gpio_chip *chip, void *data, list_del(&gdev->list); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio_lock, flags); err_free_label: - kfree(gdev->label); + kfree_const(gdev->label); err_free_descs: kfree(gdev->descs); err_free_gdev: -- 2.15.1
