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[10/14] tools/kdd: Use const whenever we point to literal strings

Message ID 20210405155713.29754-11-julien@xen.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Use const whether we point to literal strings (take 1) | expand

Commit Message

Julien Grall April 5, 2021, 3:57 p.m. UTC 
From: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>

literal strings are not meant to be modified. So we should use const
char * rather than char * when we want to shore a pointer to them.

Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
---
 tools/debugger/kdd/kdd.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Comments

Tim Deegan April 6, 2021, 2:03 p.m. UTC | #1 
At 16:57 +0100 on 05 Apr (1617641829), Julien Grall wrote:
> From: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
> 
> literal strings are not meant to be modified. So we should use const
> char * rather than char * when we want to shore a pointer to them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>

Acked-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>

Thanks,

Tim.
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Patch

diff --git a/tools/debugger/kdd/kdd.c b/tools/debugger/kdd/kdd.c
index a7d0976ea4a8..17513c26505e 100644
--- a/tools/debugger/kdd/kdd.c
+++ b/tools/debugger/kdd/kdd.c
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@  typedef struct {
     uint32_t build;             
     int w64;
     int mp;
-    char *name;
+    const char *name;
     uint64_t base;              /* KernBase: start looking here */
     uint32_t range;             /* |         and search an area this size */
     uint32_t version;           /* +-> NtBuildNumber */
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@  static size_t blocking_write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count)
 }
 
 /* Dump the contents of a complete serial packet into a log file. */
-static void kdd_log_pkt(kdd_state *s, char *name, kdd_pkt *p)
+static void kdd_log_pkt(kdd_state *s, const char *name, kdd_pkt *p)
 {
     uint32_t sum = 0;
     unsigned int i, j;
@@ -504,8 +504,8 @@  static int check_os(kdd_state *s)
  * @return -1 on failure to find the section name
  * @return 0 on success
  */
-static int get_pe64_sections(kdd_state *s, uint64_t filebase, char *sectname,
-        uint64_t *vaddr, uint32_t *vsize)
+static int get_pe64_sections(kdd_state *s, uint64_t filebase,
+        const char *sectname, uint64_t *vaddr, uint32_t *vsize)
 {
     uint64_t pe_hdr = 0;
     uint64_t sect_start = 0;
@@ -781,7 +781,7 @@  static void kdd_send_cmd(kdd_state *s, uint32_t subtype, size_t extra)
 }
 
 /* Cause the client to print a string */
-static void kdd_send_string(kdd_state *s, char *fmt, ...)
+static void kdd_send_string(kdd_state *s, const char *fmt, ...)
 {
     uint32_t len = 0xffff - sizeof (kdd_msg);
     char *buf = (char *) s->txb + sizeof (kdd_hdr) + sizeof (kdd_msg);