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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2010-08-12 07:04:17 +0200
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2010-08-11 15:34:18 +0200
commite6df34a4429b77fdffb6e05adf263468a3dcda33 (patch)
tree0858a2cd08fffad89c05ab4a0d14ae832777f42b /kernel/params.c
parentparam: silence .init.text references from param ops (diff)
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param: add a free hook to kernel_param_ops.
This allows us to generalize the KPARAM_KMALLOCED flag, by calling a function on every parameter when a module is unloaded. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/params.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/params.c17
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index a550698ae02d..458a09b886c4 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -399,9 +399,20 @@ static int param_array_get(char *buffer, const struct kernel_param *kp)
return off;
}
+static void param_array_free(void *arg)
+{
+ unsigned int i;
+ const struct kparam_array *arr = arg;
+
+ if (arr->ops->free)
+ for (i = 0; i < (arr->num ? *arr->num : arr->max); i++)
+ arr->ops->free(arr->elem + arr->elemsize * i);
+}
+
struct kernel_param_ops param_array_ops = {
.set = param_array_set,
.get = param_array_get,
+ .free = param_array_free,
};
EXPORT_SYMBOL(param_array_ops);
@@ -634,7 +645,11 @@ void module_param_sysfs_remove(struct module *mod)
void destroy_params(const struct kernel_param *params, unsigned num)
{
- /* FIXME: This should free kmalloced charp parameters. It doesn't. */
+ unsigned int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < num; i++)
+ if (params[i].ops->free)
+ params[i].ops->free(params[i].arg);
}
static void __init kernel_add_sysfs_param(const char *name,