From 563ca40ddf400dbf8c6254077f9b6887101d0f08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 09:16:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] pstore/platform: Switch pstore_info::name to const In order to more cleanly pass around backend names, make the "name" member const. This means the module param needs to be dynamic (technically, it was before, so this actually cleans up a minor memory leak if a backend was specified and then gets unloaded.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200510202436.63222-3-keescook@chromium.org/ Signed-off-by: Kees Cook --- fs/pstore/platform.c | 3 ++- include/linux/pstore.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c index 8beaeff72386..715396bef0ea 100644 --- a/fs/pstore/platform.c +++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ int pstore_register(struct pstore_info *psi) * Update the module parameter backend, so it is visible * through /sys/module/pstore/parameters/backend */ - backend = psi->name; + backend = kstrdup(psi->name, GFP_KERNEL); pr_info("Registered %s as persistent store backend\n", psi->name); @@ -667,6 +667,7 @@ void pstore_unregister(struct pstore_info *psi) free_buf_for_compression(); psinfo = NULL; + kfree(backend); backend = NULL; mutex_unlock(&psinfo_lock); } diff --git a/include/linux/pstore.h b/include/linux/pstore.h index e779441e6d26..f6f22b13e04f 100644 --- a/include/linux/pstore.h +++ b/include/linux/pstore.h @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ struct pstore_record { */ struct pstore_info { struct module *owner; - char *name; + const char *name; struct semaphore buf_lock; char *buf; -- 2.20.1