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[03/12] net: bridge: constify the struct device_type usage

Message ID 20240217-device_cleanup-net-v1-3-1eb31fb689f7@marliere.net
State New
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Series net: constify struct device_type usage |

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 br_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>
---
 net/bridge/br_device.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Simon Horman Feb. 20, 2024, 11:20 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 05:13:25PM -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 br_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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Patch

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_device.c b/net/bridge/br_device.c
index 717e9750614c..874cec75a818 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_device.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_device.c
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@  static const struct net_device_ops br_netdev_ops = {
 	.ndo_fill_forward_path	 = br_fill_forward_path,
 };
 
-static struct device_type br_type = {
+static const struct device_type br_type = {
 	.name	= "bridge",
 };