linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/5] mm/util: add kstrdup

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Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:18:39 +0100
From:	Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>
To:	linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:	Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, andi@...stfloor.org, andi@...as.de,
	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...aro.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] mm/util: add kstrdup_const

The patch adds alternative version of kstrdup which returns pointer
to constant char array. The function checks if input string is in
persistent and read-only memory section, if yes it returns the input string,
otherwise it fallbacks to kstrdup.
kstrdup_const is accompanied by kfree_const performing conditional memory
deallocation of the string.

Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>
---
 include/linux/string.h |  3 +++
 mm/util.c              | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index 2e22a2e..b11ed1e 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -115,7 +115,10 @@ extern void * memchr(const void *,int,__kernel_size_t);
 #endif
 void *memchr_inv(const void *s, int c, size_t n);
 
+extern void kfree_const(const void *x);
+
 extern char *kstrdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp);
+extern const char *kstrdup_const(const char *s, gfp_t gfp);
 extern char *kstrndup(const char *s, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
 extern void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
 
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index fec39d4..7c62128 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -12,10 +12,30 @@
 #include <linux/hugetlb.h>
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 
+#include <asm/sections.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
 #include "internal.h"
 
+static inline int is_kernel_rodata(unsigned long addr)
+{
+	return addr >= (unsigned long)__start_rodata &&
+		addr < (unsigned long)__end_rodata;
+}
+
+/**
+ * kfree_const - conditionally free memory
+ * @x: pointer to the memory
+ *
+ * Function calls kfree only if @x is not in .rodata section.
+ */
+void kfree_const(const void *x)
+{
+	if (!is_kernel_rodata((unsigned long)x))
+		kfree(x);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree_const);
+
 /**
  * kstrdup - allocate space for and copy an existing string
  * @s: the string to duplicate
@@ -38,6 +58,24 @@ char *kstrdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrdup);
 
 /**
+ * kstrdup_const - conditionally duplicate an existing const string
+ * @s: the string to duplicate
+ * @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
+ *
+ * Function returns source string if it is in .rodata section otherwise it
+ * fallbacks to kstrdup.
+ * Strings allocated by kstrdup_const should be freed by kfree_const.
+ */
+const char *kstrdup_const(const char *s, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	if (is_kernel_rodata((unsigned long)s))
+		return s;
+
+	return kstrdup(s, gfp);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrdup_const);
+
+/**
  * kstrndup - allocate space for and copy an existing string
  * @s: the string to duplicate
  * @max: read at most @max chars from @s
-- 
1.9.1

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