Re: [PATCH] of: do not leak console options

[Rob Herring]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 1:25 AM, Sergey Senozhatsky
<sergey.senozhatsky.work@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Do not strdup() console options. It seems that the only reason for
> it to be strdup()-ed was a compilation warning: printk, UART and
> console drivers, for some reason, expect char pointer instead of
> const char pointer. So we can just pass `of_stdout_options', but
> need to cast it to char pointer. A better fix would be to change
> printk, console drivers and UART to accept const char `options';
> but that will take time - there are lots of drivers to update.
>
> The patch also fixes a possible memory leak: add_preferred_console()
> can fail, but we don't kfree() options.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/of/base.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied.

Rob