Assume that the driver does not own the option string or its substrings and hence duplicate the option string for the video mode. Allocate the copy's memory with kstrdup() and free it in the module's exit function, as well as the init function's error handling. Done in preparation of switching the driver to struct option_iter and constifying the option string. v2: * replace static memory with kstrdup()/kfree() (Geert) Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/fbdev/pvr2fb.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/pvr2fb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/pvr2fb.c index 6888127a5eb8..f6be2649840d 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/pvr2fb.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/pvr2fb.c @@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ static struct fb_videomode pvr2_modedb[] = { #define DEFMODE_VGA 2 static int defmode = DEFMODE_NTSC; +static char *mode_option_buf; static char *mode_option = NULL; static inline void pvr2fb_set_pal_type(unsigned int type) @@ -1049,7 +1050,9 @@ static int __init pvr2fb_setup(char *options) } else if (!strncmp(this_opt, "nowrap", 6)) { nowrap = 1; } else { - mode_option = this_opt; + kfree(mode_option_buf); + mode_option_buf = kstrdup(this_opt, GFP_KERNEL); // ignore errors + mode_option = mode_option_buf; } } @@ -1094,8 +1097,11 @@ static int __init pvr2fb_init(void) #endif fb_info = framebuffer_alloc(sizeof(struct pvr2fb_par), NULL); - if (!fb_info) + if (!fb_info) { + kfree(mode_option_buf); + mode_option_buf = NULL; return -ENOMEM; + } currentpar = fb_info->par; @@ -1111,6 +1117,8 @@ static int __init pvr2fb_init(void) printk(KERN_ERR "pvr2fb: Failed init of %s device\n", pvr_board->name); framebuffer_release(fb_info); + kfree(mode_option_buf); + mode_option_buf = NULL; break; } } @@ -1135,6 +1143,7 @@ static void __exit pvr2fb_exit(void) unregister_framebuffer(fb_info); framebuffer_release(fb_info); + kfree(mode_option_buf); } module_init(pvr2fb_init); -- 2.39.2