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Petr Pavlu
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[ Upstream commitdeffe1edba] When setting a charp module parameter, the param_set_charp() function allocates memory to store a copy of the input value. Later, when the module is potentially unloaded, the destroy_params() function is called to free this allocated memory. However, destroy_params() is available only when CONFIG_SYSFS=y, otherwise only a dummy variant is present. In the unlikely case that the kernel is configured with CONFIG_MODULES=y and CONFIG_SYSFS=n, this results in a memory leak of charp values when a module is unloaded. Fix this issue by making destroy_params() always available when CONFIG_MODULES=y. Rename the function to module_destroy_params() to clarify that it is intended for use by the module loader. Fixes:e180a6b775("param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs") Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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