pstore/platform: Switch pstore_info::name to const

In order to more cleanly pass around backend names, make the "name" member
const. This means the module param needs to be dynamic (technically, it
was before, so this actually cleans up a minor memory leak if a backend
was specified and then gets unloaded.)

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>

Author: kees

fs/pstore/platform.c

@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ int pstore_register(struct pstore_info *psi)
 	 * Update the module parameter backend, so it is visible
 	 * through /sys/module/pstore/parameters/backend
 	 */
-	backend = psi->name;
+	backend = kstrdup(psi->name, GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	pr_info("Registered %s as persistent store backend\n", psi->name);
 
@@ -667,6 +667,7 @@ void pstore_unregister(struct pstore_info *psi)
 	free_buf_for_compression();
 
 	psinfo = NULL;
+	kfree(backend);
 	backend = NULL;
 	mutex_unlock(&psinfo_lock);
 }

include/linux/pstore.h

@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ struct pstore_record {
  */
 struct pstore_info {
 	struct module	*owner;
-	char		*name;
+	const char	*name;
 
 	struct semaphore buf_lock;
 	char		*buf;