nfc_llc_register() calls pass a string literal as the 'name' parameter. So kstrdup_const() can be used instead of kfree() to avoid a memory allocation in such cases. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/nfc/hci/llc.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/nfc/hci/llc.c b/net/nfc/hci/llc.c index 480c17f372a5..ba91284f4086 100644 --- a/net/nfc/hci/llc.c +++ b/net/nfc/hci/llc.c @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ int __init nfc_llc_init(void) static void nfc_llc_del_engine(struct nfc_llc_engine *llc_engine) { list_del(&llc_engine->entry); - kfree(llc_engine->name); + kfree_const(llc_engine->name); kfree(llc_engine); } @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ int nfc_llc_register(const char *name, const struct nfc_llc_ops *ops) if (llc_engine == NULL) return -ENOMEM; - llc_engine->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL); + llc_engine->name = kstrdup_const(name, GFP_KERNEL); if (llc_engine->name == NULL) { kfree(llc_engine); return -ENOMEM; -- 2.43.0