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Subject[patch] genalloc: freeing const data pointers
"pool->name" can be kmalloc()ed or const so we need to free it with
kfree_const().

I also cleaned up the error path in devm_gen_pool_create() a bit. With
the current code you have to change the kfree() in multiple places
which is bug prone (my first draft of this patch had a bug).

Fixes: e89a70fd54f2 ('genalloc: add support of multiple gen_pools per device')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/lib/genalloc.c b/lib/genalloc.c
index 794804b..c729113 100644
--- a/lib/genalloc.c
+++ b/lib/genalloc.c
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ void gen_pool_destroy(struct gen_pool *pool)

kfree(chunk);
}
- kfree(pool->name);
+ kfree_const(pool->name);
kfree(pool);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(gen_pool_destroy);
@@ -631,23 +631,25 @@ struct gen_pool *devm_gen_pool_create(struct device *dev, int min_alloc_order,
}

ptr = devres_alloc(devm_gen_pool_release, sizeof(*ptr), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!ptr) {
- kfree(pool_name);
- return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
- }
+ if (!ptr)
+ goto free_pool_name;

pool = gen_pool_create(min_alloc_order, nid);
- if (pool) {
- *ptr = pool;
- pool->name = pool_name;
- devres_add(dev, ptr);
- } else {
- devres_free(ptr);
- kfree(pool_name);
- return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
- }
+ if (!pool)
+ goto free_devres;
+
+ *ptr = pool;
+ pool->name = pool_name;
+ devres_add(dev, ptr);

return pool;
+
+free_devres:
+ devres_free(ptr);
+free_pool_name:
+ kfree_const(pool_name);
+
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(devm_gen_pool_create);


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