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authorLiam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>2010-11-03 14:11:27 +0000
committerLiam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>2010-11-03 14:11:27 +0000
commit8f987768eb99631374f4ab0bb19cd062baf1397d (patch)
treeb89aa5c207f7ba6a688f45657424b937f17ceb8a /scripts/mod/modpost.c
parent63f7526f26f0a9291ac3f7a986aa18ebfb61ec19 (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("");
}