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authorMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>2010-11-02 09:41:56 -0400
committerMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>2010-11-02 09:41:56 -0400
commit29c798fecb9b846b363b0a02fa662ff42fc19426 (patch)
treee708d6aca8f098e69571780f702325b221b66694 /scripts/mod/modpost.c
parentcb9906229595941d632fc4022b05da4f9533856a (diff)
parentc8ddb2713c624f432fa5fe3c7ecffcdda46ea0d4 (diff)
Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc1' into for-2.6.37
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("");
}