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-rw-r--r--include/linux/moduleparam.h1
-rw-r--r--kernel/params.c10
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
index 6547c3c..82a9124 100644
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ typedef int (*param_set_fn)(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp);
typedef int (*param_get_fn)(char *buffer, struct kernel_param *kp);
/* Flag bits for kernel_param.flags */
-#define KPARAM_KMALLOCED 1
#define KPARAM_ISBOOL 2
struct kernel_param {
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index 9da58ea..95ef27c 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -218,13 +218,9 @@ int param_set_charp(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp)
return -ENOSPC;
}
- if (kp->flags & KPARAM_KMALLOCED)
- kfree(*(char **)kp->arg);
-
/* This is a hack. We can't need to strdup in early boot, and we
* don't need to; this mangled commandline is preserved. */
if (slab_is_available()) {
- kp->flags |= KPARAM_KMALLOCED;
*(char **)kp->arg = kstrdup(val, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!kp->arg)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -605,11 +601,7 @@ void module_param_sysfs_remove(struct module *mod)
void destroy_params(const struct kernel_param *params, unsigned num)
{
- unsigned int i;
-
- for (i = 0; i < num; i++)
- if (params[i].flags & KPARAM_KMALLOCED)
- kfree(*(char **)params[i].arg);
+ /* FIXME: This should free kmalloced charp parameters. It doesn't. */
}
static void __init kernel_add_sysfs_param(const char *name,
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