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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2010-10-30 22:16:56 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2010-10-30 22:16:56 +0200
commitf1e095f1d206b81b44160f41278ce5c78641e9b7 (patch)
treebd293d46d2d3e4cdf435a22ddb2877c6ba1b8acc /scripts/mod/modpost.c
parentb0438a1b71955c425c304a2a483765ef24841766 (diff)
parent1792f17b7210280a3d7ff29da9614ba779cfcedb (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/mod/modpost.c')
-rw-r--r--scripts/mod/modpost.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 1ec7158b6c1..33122ca04e7 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1208,6 +1208,9 @@ static Elf_Sym *find_elf_symbol2(struct elf_info *elf, Elf_Addr addr,
* .cpuinit.data => __cpudata
* .memexitconst => __memconst
* etc.
+ *
+ * The memory of returned value has been allocated on a heap. The user of this
+ * method should free it after usage.
*/
static char *sec2annotation(const char *s)
{
@@ -1230,7 +1233,7 @@ static char *sec2annotation(const char *s)
strcat(p, "data ");
else
strcat(p, " ");
- return r; /* we leak her but we do not care */
+ return r;
} else {
return strdup("");
}