Provide a resource managed version of kstrdup_const(). This variant internally calls devm_kstrdup() on pointers that are outside of .rodata section and returns the string as is otherwise. Also provide a corresponding version of devm_kfree(). Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/base/devres.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/device.h | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/base/devres.c b/drivers/base/devres.c index 438c91a43508..48185d57bc5b 100644 --- a/drivers/base/devres.c +++ b/drivers/base/devres.c @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/percpu.h> +#include <asm/sections.h> + #include "base.h" struct devres_node { @@ -822,6 +824,28 @@ char *devm_kstrdup(struct device *dev, const char *s, gfp_t gfp) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_kstrdup); +/** + * devm_kstrdup_const - resource managed conditional string duplication + * @dev: device for which to duplicate the string + * @s: the string to duplicate + * @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory + * + * Strings allocated by devm_kstrdup_const will be automatically freed when + * the associated device is detached. + * + * RETURNS: + * Source string if it is in .rodata section otherwise it falls back to + * devm_kstrdup. + */ +const char *devm_kstrdup_const(struct device *dev, const char *s, gfp_t gfp) +{ + if (is_kernel_rodata((unsigned long)s)) + return s; + + return devm_kstrdup(dev, s, gfp); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(devm_kstrdup_const); + /** * devm_kvasprintf - Allocate resource managed space and format a string * into that. @@ -895,6 +919,20 @@ void devm_kfree(struct device *dev, const void *p) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_kfree); +/** + * devm_kfree_const - Resource managed conditional kfree + * @dev: device this memory belongs to + * @p: memory to free + * + * Function calls devm_kfree only if @p is not in .rodata section. + */ +void devm_kfree_const(struct device *dev, const void *p) +{ + if (!is_kernel_rodata((unsigned long)p)) + devm_kfree(dev, p); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(devm_kfree_const); + /** * devm_kmemdup - Resource-managed kmemdup * @dev: Device this memory belongs to diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h index 33f7cb271fbb..79ccc6eb0975 100644 --- a/include/linux/device.h +++ b/include/linux/device.h @@ -693,7 +693,10 @@ static inline void *devm_kcalloc(struct device *dev, return devm_kmalloc_array(dev, n, size, flags | __GFP_ZERO); } extern void devm_kfree(struct device *dev, const void *p); +extern void devm_kfree_const(struct device *dev, const void *p); extern char *devm_kstrdup(struct device *dev, const char *s, gfp_t gfp) __malloc; +extern const char *devm_kstrdup_const(struct device *dev, + const char *s, gfp_t gfp); extern void *devm_kmemdup(struct device *dev, const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp); -- 2.18.0