Re: [PATCH] mtd: pmcmsp: use kstrndup instead of kmalloc+strncpy

From: Brian Norris
Date: Wed Feb 08 2017 - 16:23:06 EST


On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 10:12:35PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 02/03/2017 10:49 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > kernelci.org reports a warning for this driver, as it copies a local
> > variable into a 'const char *' string:
> >
> > drivers/mtd/maps/pmcmsp-flash.c:149:30: warning: passing argument 1 of 'strncpy' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
> >
> > Using kstrndup() simplifies the code and avoids the warning.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied to l2-mtd.git.