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[10/12] net: netdevsim: constify the struct device_type usage

Message ID 20240217-device_cleanup-net-v1-10-1eb31fb689f7@marliere.net (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit 52042e092ba9cf9120ffe516dd03acb1d1e572b9
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
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Series net: constify struct device_type usage | expand

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Commit Message

Ricardo B. Marliere Feb. 17, 2024, 8:13 p.m. UTC
Since commit aed65af1cc2f ("drivers: make device_type const"), the driver
core can properly handle constant struct device_type. Move the
nsim_bus_dev_type variable to be a constant structure as well, placing it
into read-only memory which can not be modified at runtime.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <ricardo@marliere.net>
---
 drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Simon Horman Feb. 20, 2024, 11:22 a.m. UTC | #1
On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 05:13:32PM -0300, Ricardo B. Marliere wrote:
> Since commit aed65af1cc2f ("drivers: make device_type const"), the driver
> core can properly handle constant struct device_type. Move the
> nsim_bus_dev_type variable to be a constant structure as well, placing it
> into read-only memory which can not be modified at runtime.
> 
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <ricardo@marliere.net>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c b/drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c
index aedab1d9623a..0c5aff63d242 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@  static void nsim_bus_dev_release(struct device *dev)
 		complete(&nsim_bus_devs_released);
 }
 
-static struct device_type nsim_bus_dev_type = {
+static const struct device_type nsim_bus_dev_type = {
 	.groups = nsim_bus_dev_attr_groups,
 	.release = nsim_bus_dev_release,
 };