fs/namespace: convert devname allocation to kstrdup_const
VFS frequently performs duplication of strings located in read-only memory
section. Replacing kstrdup by kstrdup_const allows to avoid such
operations.
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Cc: Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index cd1e968..6dae553 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@
goto out_free_cache;
if (name) {
- mnt->mnt_devname = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
+ mnt->mnt_devname = kstrdup_const(name, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!mnt->mnt_devname)
goto out_free_id;
}
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
out_free_devname:
- kfree(mnt->mnt_devname);
+ kfree_const(mnt->mnt_devname);
#endif
out_free_id:
mnt_free_id(mnt);
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@
static void free_vfsmnt(struct mount *mnt)
{
- kfree(mnt->mnt_devname);
+ kfree_const(mnt->mnt_devname);
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
free_percpu(mnt->mnt_pcp);
#endif
