Re: [PATCH 2.6] 7/7 replace snd_kmalloc_strdup by kstrdup

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:39:25 +0000,
Paulo Marques wrote:
> 
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> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:07:25 +0000,
> > Paulo Marques wrote:
> > 
> >>I thought of going all the way and changing the callers of kstrdup in 
> >>sound to use kfree, so that it would work without debugging memory 
> >>allocated for strdup'ed strings.
> >>
> >>However the code there already uses kfree, just not the standard kfree 
> >>because it might have been defined to something else in core.h if 
> >>CONFIG_SND_DEBUG_MEMORY is set.
> >>
> >>We could still go all the way and carry on with this approach: use the 
> >>standard kstrdup / kfree when not CONFIG_SND_DEBUG_MEMORY, and define 
> >>kstrdup to be an internal sound function in sound/core/memory.c when 
> >>CONFIG_SND_DEBUG_MEMORY is set.
> > 
> > 
> > This sounds good.  We can do just like normal kmalloc:
> > 
> > #ifdef CONFIG_SND_DEBUG_MEMORY
> > ...
> > #define kstrdup(s) my_kstrdup_wrapper(s)
> > #endif
> > 
> > 
> >>Do you prefer that I do another patch to do this, or that I just drop 
> >>the patch and leave snd_kmalloc_strdup alone?
> > 
> > 
> > Heh, it's up to you ;)  Using kstrdup() in normal cases would be
> > better, of course.
> 
> Ok, how about this patch, then?

Thanks, that looks almost fine except:

> diff -uprN -X dontdiff vanilla-2.6.11-rc2-bk9/sound/core/sound.c linux-2.6.11-rc2-bk9/sound/core/sound.c
> --- vanilla-2.6.11-rc2-bk9/sound/core/sound.c	2005-01-31 20:05:34.000000000 +0000
> +++ linux-2.6.11-rc2-bk9/sound/core/sound.c	2005-02-01 15:02:04.000000000 +0000
> @@ -401,7 +401,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_hidden_kfree);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_hidden_vmalloc);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_hidden_vfree);
>  #endif
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_kmalloc_strdup);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(copy_to_user_fromio);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(copy_from_user_toio);
>    /* init.c */

I guess here missing EXPORT(snd_hidden_kstrdup)?


Takashi