linux-kernel - [PATCH] nfc: hci: Save a few bytes of memory when registering a 'nfc

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Message-ID: <6d2b8c390907dcac2e4dc6e71f1b2db2ef8abef1.1705744530.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 10:56:06 +0100
From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] nfc: hci: Save a few bytes of memory when registering a 'nfc_llc' engine

nfc_llc_register() calls pass a string literal as the 'name' parameter.

So kstrdup_const() can be used instead of kfree() to avoid a memory
allocation in such cases.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
---
 net/nfc/hci/llc.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/nfc/hci/llc.c b/net/nfc/hci/llc.c
index 2140f6724644..8c7b5a817b25 100644
--- a/net/nfc/hci/llc.c
+++ b/net/nfc/hci/llc.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ int nfc_llc_register(const char *name, const struct nfc_llc_ops *ops)
 	if (llc_engine == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	llc_engine->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
+	llc_engine->name = kstrdup_const(name, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (llc_engine->name == NULL) {
 		kfree(llc_engine);
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ void nfc_llc_unregister(const char *name)
 		return;
 
 	list_del(&llc_engine->entry);
-	kfree(llc_engine->name);
+	kfree_const(llc_engine->name);
 	kfree(llc_engine);
 }
 
-- 
2.43.0