From 9548906b2bb7ff09e12c013a55d669bef2c8e121 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tetsuo Handa Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 05:44:02 +0900 Subject: xattr: Constify ->name member of "struct xattr". Since everybody sets kstrdup()ed constant string to "struct xattr"->name but nobody modifies "struct xattr"->name , we can omit kstrdup() and its failure checking by constifying ->name member of "struct xattr". Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Reviewed-by: Joel Becker [ocfs2] Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn Acked-by: Casey Schaufler Acked-by: Mimi Zohar Reviewed-by: Paul Moore Tested-by: Paul Moore Acked-by: Eric Paris Signed-off-by: James Morris --- security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'security/smack') diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c index 3f7682a387b7..a113a779f00c 100644 --- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c +++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c @@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ static void smack_inode_free_security(struct inode *inode) * Returns 0 if it all works out, -ENOMEM if there's no memory */ static int smack_inode_init_security(struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir, - const struct qstr *qstr, char **name, + const struct qstr *qstr, const char **name, void **value, size_t *len) { struct inode_smack *issp = inode->i_security; @@ -591,11 +591,8 @@ static int smack_inode_init_security(struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir, char *dsp = smk_of_inode(dir); int may; - if (name) { - *name = kstrdup(XATTR_SMACK_SUFFIX, GFP_NOFS); - if (*name == NULL) - return -ENOMEM; - } + if (name) + *name = XATTR_SMACK_SUFFIX; if (value) { rcu_read_lock(); -- cgit v1.2.3