Re: [PATCHv2] mm: do not export const kfree and kstrdup variants

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 03:56:53PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Totally agree with all the points, I haven't looked at how
> popular that API was before sending out the patch.  Is there
> some sort of "built time const" but for strings that we, perhaps,
> can add to kfree_const() (and make kfree_const() always inline)?
> So that we can turn this
> 
> 	str = "boom";
> 	...
> 	kfree_const(str);
> 
> into a safe scenario for modules.

Not sure, but even then the API would be horrible as it still would
not work for constants in other modules than the one calling it.