From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Memory allocated with kstrdup_const() must not be passed to regular krealloc() as it is not aware of the possibility of the chunk residing in .rodata. Since there are no potential users of krealloc_const() at the moment, let's just update the doc to make it explicit. Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/util.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 5ef378a2a038..bb902f5a6582 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrdup); * @s: the string to duplicate * @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory * - * Note: Strings allocated by kstrdup_const should be freed by kfree_const. + * Note: Strings allocated by kstrdup_const should be freed by kfree_const and + * must not be passed to krealloc(). * * Return: source string if it is in .rodata section otherwise * fallback to kstrdup. -- 2.26.1
