Memory allocated with kstrdup_const() must not be passed to regular
krealloc() as it is not aware of the possibility of the chunk residing in
.rodata. Since there are no potential users of krealloc_const() at the
moment, let's just update the doc to make it explicit.
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200817173927.23389-1-brgl@bgdev.pl
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* @s: the string to duplicate
* @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
*
- * Note: Strings allocated by kstrdup_const should be freed by kfree_const.
+ * Note: Strings allocated by kstrdup_const should be freed by kfree_const and
+ * must not be passed to krealloc().
*
* Return: source string if it is in .rodata section otherwise
* fallback to kstrdup.