linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] soc: fsl: guts: us devm_kstrdup

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Date:   Fri, 21 Dec 2018 20:29:56 -0600
From:   Scott Wood <oss@...error.net>
To:     Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>, Li Yang <leoyang.li@....com>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] soc: fsl: guts: us devm_kstrdup_const() for RO data

On Fri, 2018-12-07 at 09:22 +0100, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> devm_kstrdup() may return NULL if internal allocation failed, but
> as  machine  is from the device tree, and thus RO, devm_kstrdup_const()
> can be used here, which will only copy the reference.

Is it really going to only copy the reference?  That would require that
is_kernel_rodata(machine) be true, which it shouldn't be since it's not part
of the kernel image.

-Scott