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| author |   James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-05-08 17:56:47 +1000 |
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| committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-05-08 17:56:47 +1000 |
| commit | d254117099d711f215e62427f55dfb8ebd5ad011 (patch) | |
| tree | 0848ff8dd74314fec14a86497f8d288c86ba7c65 /kernel/params.c | |
| parent | integrity: remove __setup auditing msgs (diff) | |
| parent | NOMMU: Don't check vm_region::vm_start is page aligned in add_nommu_region() (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-d254117099d711f215e62427f55dfb8ebd5ad011.tar.xz linux-dev-d254117099d711f215e62427f55dfb8ebd5ad011.zip | |
Merge branch 'master' into next
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/params.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/params.c | 26 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c index a1e3025b19a9..de273ec85bd2 100644 --- a/kernel/params.c +++ b/kernel/params.c @@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ #include <linux/err.h> #include <linux/slab.h> +/* We abuse the high bits of "perm" to record whether we kmalloc'ed. */ +#define KPARAM_KMALLOCED 0x80000000 + #if 0 #define DEBUGP printk #else @@ -217,7 +220,19 @@ int param_set_charp(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp) return -ENOSPC; } - *(char **)kp->arg = (char *)val; + if (kp->perm & KPARAM_KMALLOCED) + kfree(*(char **)kp->arg); + + /* This is a hack. We can't need to strdup in early boot, and we + * don't need to; this mangled commandline is preserved. */ + if (slab_is_available()) { + kp->perm |= KPARAM_KMALLOCED; + *(char **)kp->arg = kstrdup(val, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!kp->arg) + return -ENOMEM; + } else + *(const char **)kp->arg = val; + return 0; } @@ -571,6 +586,15 @@ void module_param_sysfs_remove(struct module *mod) } #endif +void destroy_params(const struct kernel_param *params, unsigned num) +{ + unsigned int i; + + for (i = 0; i < num; i++) + if (params[i].perm & KPARAM_KMALLOCED) + kfree(*(char **)params[i].arg); +} + static void __init kernel_add_sysfs_param(const char *name, struct kernel_param *kparam, unsigned int name_skip) |