[PATCH v3 01/15] lib: provide kmemdup_const()

Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko at gmail.com
Thu Jul 24 04:04:20 PDT 2025


On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl at bgdev.pl> wrote:
>
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski at linaro.org>
>
> Provide a function similar to strdup_const() but for copying blocks of
> memory that are likely to be placed in .rodata.

Makes sense, one nit-pick below.

...

>  extern void *kmemdup_noprof(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp) __realloc_size(2);
>  #define kmemdup(...)   alloc_hooks(kmemdup_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))
>
> +extern const void *kmemdup_const(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);

Can we locate this in the similar order to the C-file? I would put it
before kmemdup_array().

>  extern void *kvmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp) __realloc_size(2);
>  extern char *kmemdup_nul(const char *s, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
>  extern void *kmemdup_array(const void *src, size_t count, size_t element_size, gfp_t gfp)

(below left for the context)
> +
>  /**
>   * kmemdup_array - duplicate a given array.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



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