Now that the driver core can properly handle constant struct bus_type,
move the virtio_bus 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 <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <[email protected]>
---
drivers/virtio/virtio.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
index f4080692b351..a68e6556f71b 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ static void virtio_dev_remove(struct device *_d)
of_node_put(dev->dev.of_node);
}
-static struct bus_type virtio_bus = {
+static const struct bus_type virtio_bus = {
.name = "virtio",
.match = virtio_dev_match,
.dev_groups = virtio_dev_groups,
---
base-commit: 41b9fb381a486360b2daaec0c7480f8e3ff72bc7
change-id: 20240204-bus_cleanup-virtio-9f076c3cb068
Best regards,
--
Ricardo B. Marliere <[email protected]>
On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 05:52:51PM -0300, Ricardo B. Marliere wrote:
> Now that the driver core can properly handle constant struct bus_type,
> move the virtio_bus 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 <[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 4:52 AM Ricardo B. Marliere <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Now that the driver core can properly handle constant struct bus_type,
> move the virtio_bus 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 <[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <[email protected]>
> ---
Acked-by: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Thanks