[alsa-devel] Applied "ASoC: dapm: Avoid duplicating immutable strings" to the asoc tree

[Mark Brown]

The patch

   ASoC: dapm: Avoid duplicating immutable strings

has been applied to the asoc tree at

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound.git 

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Mark

>From 480689617510381391b3d906549477b948d9c4bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars at metafoo.de>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 18:11:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ASoC: dapm: Avoid duplicating immutable strings

When creating a new widget from a template the name string of the template
is duplicated for the newly created widget. This is necessary because in
some cases the string might be stored on the stack or other volatile
memory locations.

But most of the time the string is static const data, which means it is
possible to use it directly without having to worry that it might get freed
or changed.

Use kstrdup_const() to handle duplicating the string. This function is
capable of detecting whether a string is immutable and if it is returns the
input without duplicating it. This will slightly reduce the runtime memory
footprint of DAPM and also speed up initialization.

Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars at metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
---
 sound/soc/soc-dapm.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c
index 24ea692bd49e..cb4bc1cd5049 100644
--- a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c
+++ b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c
@@ -2329,7 +2329,7 @@ void snd_soc_dapm_free_widget(struct snd_soc_dapm_widget *w)
 		dapm_free_path(p);
 
 	kfree(w->kcontrols);
-	kfree(w->name);
+	kfree_const(w->name);
 	kfree(w);
 }
 
@@ -3350,7 +3350,7 @@ snd_soc_dapm_new_control_unlocked(struct snd_soc_dapm_context *dapm,
 	if (prefix)
 		w->name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s %s", prefix, widget->name);
 	else
-		w->name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s", widget->name);
+		w->name = kstrdup_const(widget->name, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (w->name == NULL) {
 		kfree(w);
 		return NULL;
-- 
2.1.4