From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-pg1-f169.google.com (mail-pg1-f169.google.com [209.85.215.169]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8AE6644C68 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2024 05:41:56 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=209.85.215.169 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1727156517; cv=none; b=rDdyc/JFpUs2Eee/tiJCMtgJmKp0xTHk77OWynG02gbZcdfPVQ48pNdoYe4P4sOHa1PEfcf6z5IAqdlm46H4q57BYwRHffqGIVKKSUQ6CZVRty2KnWnxtDtIC53Qqjc/aQSF6QOx8RZVg84WK/Uik0pnWTG5sdNdkgssFI6H3sQ= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1727156517; c=relaxed/simple; bh=jH6sv8FNLFl/Kif28e2IwbxyIC15AJwFwxX0qKHVeUI=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=qMCdowN58N53k6lFobL0wf7QABFgHIX5kPdjHIBK0PRaXnTo+HhCsOqivygKegXwq879XUPOWsWaCmwAIjTrwqmhR9qgm9LiwOftAk8DBPuPAGHeJL7z9Q0WHN1E3BD8Z7qgXgddomv6I8REGm2NBfqb9oVsvS9IPppA677fM5o= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=chromium.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=chromium.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=chromium.org header.i=@chromium.org header.b=HewoBtYU; arc=none smtp.client-ip=209.85.215.169 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=chromium.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=chromium.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=chromium.org header.i=@chromium.org header.b="HewoBtYU" Received: by mail-pg1-f169.google.com with SMTP id 41be03b00d2f7-7b0c9bbddb4so3460880a12.3 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:41:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=chromium.org; s=google; t=1727156516; x=1727761316; darn=vger.kernel.org; h=in-reply-to:content-disposition:mime-version:references:message-id :subject:cc:to:from:date:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=cge31yltZ3LBqF6Zjp76yFNSwmaUL6JImZQbh8KHv9Q=; b=HewoBtYUFcwrDJxS/LiYKia4PdxpxNFPuST4Jd7FT8su7mdpEkHebJPWVow345IjLX SC19yurgWbb/Vtl6/kNTDclLo826TtFg+THGLxZuNwD1/kPIXKlyi11K1mZEFIe4oIPh WxXGuOwc6n5fSErJnkVE+381ZWQYOWA6vsmOQ= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1727156516; x=1727761316; h=in-reply-to:content-disposition:mime-version:references:message-id :subject:cc:to:from:date:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:reply-to; bh=cge31yltZ3LBqF6Zjp76yFNSwmaUL6JImZQbh8KHv9Q=; b=A3QGyLSK7kA8US3IkB3owH+nBulkNCUR8SIR6WAwG792xb3Ko7efjVvObt3S49Wu4F NQxvarhaQDNyPvbg8zrOtx8aDIwLS/ncRt2WF039tAHVVnAaZgxFz57xyu3l+krKFHB4 T4mhMBHOAr+lQIDUJKacZDESh8Ap9ReOQKNepjok3ys0OM068H0fgdsviddEzNi7BWaf n35riNcVi1hxuX2sc74GtiQWcl2FIgmyvQP6J9VPsul/LCG+XORE1NaN+yLjHLL9tv5s +xE+h+AVCpBbjblskdVB8ykCvzjq8+9yr14iC9msVSPi4Cl3y113mCg0+F7JKGsVRWlj O1/Q== X-Forwarded-Encrypted: i=1; AJvYcCUTKLv3MJAbCBs3JEF/wgk2BtSLT1dBeBwysNuIPFjGZblOs3nI+i+TgcSFMSq89swiSV/El4I=@vger.kernel.org X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0YwLIh1FulkVW0RZ6V8nQ+mT2n16TQM4em7lMtAIcP2YgFzn0ygp AE8SLgB5y99uEa2Fps8S6y3gGkxUMjMw70UKekWS8Xec1IOjh5nvcG/AOL+XuA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IG1lZisxJAgOWdpQ4rLYMltGE4fxYOV29zGec732JAMjhEQW5CudTcv6H4bnb03Tqzw7xN0QQ== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6a21:168e:b0:1ce:e725:1723 with SMTP id adf61e73a8af0-1d30a9d8901mr19524958637.45.1727156515684; Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:41:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from google.com ([2401:fa00:8f:203:93d1:1107:fd24:adf0]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 98e67ed59e1d1-2e058ee6110sm590246a91.8.2024.09.23.22.41.53 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:41:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:41:51 +0900 From: Sergey Senozhatsky To: Christophe JAILLET Cc: Andrey Skvortsov , Venkat Rao Bagalkote , Minchan Kim , Sergey Senozhatsky , Jens Axboe , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] zram: don't free statically defined names Message-ID: <20240924054151.GL38742@google.com> References: <20240923164843.1117010-1-andrej.skvortzov@gmail.com> <8294e492-5811-44de-8ee2-5f460a065f54@wanadoo.fr> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8294e492-5811-44de-8ee2-5f460a065f54@wanadoo.fr> On (24/09/24 07:21), Christophe JAILLET wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > maybe kfree_const() to be more future proof and less verbose? > > > > kfree_const() will not work if zram is built as a module. It works > > only for .rodata for kernel image. [1] > > > > 1. https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.11/source/include/asm-generic/sections.h#L177 > > > > If so, then it is likely that it is not correctly used elsewhere. Oh, apparently there are drivers that use it... So I suspect it works when you do kstrdup_const() kfree_const() // I only looked at drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/bus.c kstrdup_const() can't tell module's .rodata so it does plain kstrdup() and then kfree_const() (for the same reason) does plain kfree(). But calling kfree_const() on something that has not been kstrdup_const() is unlikely to work as intended for modules. So I guess kfree_const() works only when paired with kstrdup_const().