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

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Date:   Sun, 16 Jan 2022 13:53:37 +0100
From:   Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy@...nel.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Subject: [PATCH v2] lib/string_helpers: Use the given gfp flag when allocating memory

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@...adoo.fr>
---
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);
 
-- 
2.32.0