On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 2:02 AM Nicholas Mc Guire [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 08:29:56PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:

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On Fri, 2018-12-07 at 09:22 +0100, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:

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devm_kstrdup() may return NULL if internal allocation failed, but
as  machine  is from the device tree, and thus RO, devm_kstrdup_const()
can be used here, which will only copy the reference.

Is it really going to only copy the reference?  That would require that
is_kernel_rodata(machine) be true, which it shouldn't be since it's not part
of the kernel image.

I had tried to figure out what is RO and what not but was not
able to determine that - from the discussion it seemed that the
assumption of RO is correct though I did not ask if it would
satisfy is_kernel_rodata() so that explains the incorrect assertion.
see https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/6/42
So then the only option is to check the return and cleanup
on allocation failure as the orriginal patch proposed.

Thanks for the good discussion. I will drop the previous patch. But
would it also be good to just have "soc_dev_attr.machine = machine"
directly?

Regards,
Leo