For cases where @firmware is declared "const char *", use function kstrdup_const() to avoid needlessly creating another copy on the heap. Suggested-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c | 4 ++-- include/linux/remoteproc.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c index 9899467fa1cf..ebaff496ef81 100644 --- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c @@ -1982,7 +1982,7 @@ static const struct device_type rproc_type = { static int rproc_alloc_firmware(struct rproc *rproc, const char *name, const char *firmware) { - char *p; + const char *p; if (!firmware) /* @@ -1991,7 +1991,7 @@ static int rproc_alloc_firmware(struct rproc *rproc, */ p = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "rproc-%s-fw", name); else - p = kstrdup(firmware, GFP_KERNEL); + p = kstrdup_const(firmware, GFP_KERNEL); if (!p) return -ENOMEM; diff --git a/include/linux/remoteproc.h b/include/linux/remoteproc.h index 9c07d7958c53..38607107b7cb 100644 --- a/include/linux/remoteproc.h +++ b/include/linux/remoteproc.h @@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ struct rproc { struct list_head node; struct iommu_domain *domain; const char *name; - char *firmware; + const char *firmware; void *priv; struct rproc_ops *ops; struct device dev; -- 2.20.1