From db179e0d0d1003f10b798e072524be6bcdae5053 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergey Senozhatsky Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 15:25:10 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] of: do not leak console options Do not strdup() console options. It seems that the only reason for it to be strdup()-ed was a compilation warning: printk, UART and console drivers, for some reason, expect char pointer instead of const char pointer. So we can just pass `of_stdout_options', but need to cast it to char pointer. A better fix would be to change printk, console drivers and UART to accept const char `options'; but that will take time - there are lots of drivers to update. The patch also fixes a possible memory leak: add_preferred_console() can fail, but we don't kfree() options. Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Rob Herring --- drivers/of/base.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c index 260d33c0f26c..63897531cd75 100644 --- a/drivers/of/base.c +++ b/drivers/of/base.c @@ -1781,8 +1781,12 @@ bool of_console_check(struct device_node *dn, char *name, int index) { if (!dn || dn != of_stdout || console_set_on_cmdline) return false; - return !add_preferred_console(name, index, - kstrdup(of_stdout_options, GFP_KERNEL)); + + /* + * XXX: cast `options' to char pointer to suppress complication + * warnings: printk, UART and console drivers expect char pointer. + */ + return !add_preferred_console(name, index, (char *)of_stdout_options); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_console_check); -- 2.20.1