[PATCH v2] lib/string_helpers: Use the given gfp flag when allocating memory

From: Christophe JAILLET
Date: Sun Jan 16 2022 - 07:53:43 EST


kstrdup_quotable_cmdline() and kstrdup_quotable_file() are given a gfp flag
that is passed and used for memory allocation in kstrdup_quotable() just a
few lines below.

It looks reasonable to use this gfp value for the buffer allocated and
freed in these functions as well.

Fixes: 0ee931c4e31a ("mm: treewide: remove GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
According to what I've found in 5.16, all callers use GFP_KERNEL, so this
patch should be a no-op.
But who knows how it will be used in the future. Better safe than sorry.

v2: Add the change for kstrdup_quotable_file()
---
lib/string_helpers.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c
index 90f9f1b7afec..4433e486b725 100644
--- a/lib/string_helpers.c
+++ b/lib/string_helpers.c
@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ char *kstrdup_quotable_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, gfp_t gfp)
char *buffer, *quoted;
int i, res;

- buffer = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buffer = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, gfp);
if (!buffer)
return NULL;

@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ char *kstrdup_quotable_file(struct file *file, gfp_t gfp)
return kstrdup("<unknown>", gfp);

/* We add 11 spaces for ' (deleted)' to be appended */
- temp = kmalloc(PATH_MAX + 11, GFP_KERNEL);
+ temp = kmalloc(PATH_MAX + 11, gfp);
if (!temp)
return kstrdup("<no_memory>", gfp);

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2.32.0