linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] devres: provide devm_kstrdup

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Date:   Thu, 27 Sep 2018 13:01:50 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Arend van Spriel <aspriel@...il.com>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        vivek.gautam@...eaurora.org, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
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        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-clk <linux-clk@...r.kernel.org>,
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        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] devres: provide devm_kstrdup_const()

Hi Rasmus,

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 12:55 PM Rasmus Villemoes
<linux@...musvillemoes.dk> wrote:
> On 2018-09-27 01:13, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 3:11 AM, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> wrote:
> >> Provide a resource managed version of kstrdup_const(). This variant
> >> internally calls devm_kstrdup() on pointers that are outside of
> >> .rodata section and returns the string as is otherwise.
> >>
> >> Also provide a corresponding version of devm_kfree().
> >>
> >> +/**
> >> + * devm_kfree_const - Resource managed conditional kfree
> >> + * @dev: device this memory belongs to
> >> + * @p: memory to free
> >> + *
> >> + * Function calls devm_kfree only if @p is not in .rodata section.
> >> + */
> >> +void devm_kfree_const(struct device *dev, const void *p)
> >> +{
> >> +       if (!is_kernel_rodata((unsigned long)p))
> >> +               devm_kfree(dev, p);
> >> +}
> >> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(devm_kfree_const);
> >> +
> >>  /**
> >>   * devm_kmemdup - Resource-managed kmemdup
> >>   * @dev: Device this memory belongs to
> >> diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
> >> index 33f7cb271fbb..79ccc6eb0975 100644
> >> --- a/include/linux/device.h
> >> +++ b/include/linux/device.h
> >> @@ -693,7 +693,10 @@ static inline void *devm_kcalloc(struct device *dev,
> >>         return devm_kmalloc_array(dev, n, size, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
> >>  }
> >>  extern void devm_kfree(struct device *dev, const void *p);
> >> +extern void devm_kfree_const(struct device *dev, const void *p);
> >
> > With devm_kfree and devm_kfree_const both taking "const", how are
> > devm_kstrdup_const() and devm_kfree_const() going to be correctly
> > paired at compile time? (i.e. I wasn't expecting the prototype change
> > to devm_kfree())
>
> Just drop devm_kfree_const and teach devm_kfree to ignore
> is_kernel_rodata(). That avoids the 50-100 bytes of overhead for adding
> yet another EXPORT_SYMBOL and makes it easier to port drivers to
> devm_kstrdup_const (and avoids the bugs Kees is worried about). devm
> managed resources are almost never freed explicitly, so that single
> extra comparison in devm_kfree shouldn't matter for performance.

I guess we can also teach kfree() to ignore is_kernel_rodata(), and
drop kfree_const()?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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