Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] driver property: constify property arrays values

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Wed Feb 01 2017 - 09:49:19 EST


On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 06:11:29PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Data that is fed into property arrays should not be modified, so let's mark
> relevant pointers as const. This will allow us making source arrays as
> const/__initconst.
>
> Also fix memory leaks on errors in property_entry_copy().
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/base/property.c | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> include/linux/property.h | 12 ++++-----
> 2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/property.c b/drivers/base/property.c
> index edc09854520b..fd91e0891665 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/property.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/property.c
> @@ -682,44 +682,65 @@ int fwnode_property_match_string(struct fwnode_handle *fwnode,
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fwnode_property_match_string);
>
> +static int property_copy_string_array(struct property_entry *dst,
> + const struct property_entry *src)
> +{
> + char **d;
> + size_t nval = src->length / sizeof(*d);
> + size_t i;
> +
> + d = kcalloc(nval, sizeof(*d), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!d)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < nval; i++) {
> + d[i] = kstrdup(src->pointer.str[i], GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!d[i] && src->pointer.str[i]) {
> + while (--i >= 0)
> + kfree(d[i]);

Should we free d as well here?

> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
> + }
> +
> + dst->pointer.str = (void *)d;
> + return 0;
> +}