[PATCH] mtd: pmcmsp: use kstrndup instead of kmalloc+strncpy

Brian Norris computersforpeace at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 13:16:49 PST 2017


On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 10:12:35PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 02/03/2017 10:49 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > kernelci.org reports a warning for this driver, as it copies a local
> > variable into a 'const char *' string:
> > 
> >     drivers/mtd/maps/pmcmsp-flash.c:149:30: warning: passing argument 1 of 'strncpy' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
> > 
> > Using kstrndup() simplifies the code and avoids the warning.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com>

Applied to l2-mtd.git.



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