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From: "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@marliere.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2024 17:13:25 -0300
Subject: [PATCH 03/12] net: bridge: constify the struct device_type usage
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To: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>, 
 "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>, 
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Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, 
 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux.dev, 
 linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, 
 "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@marliere.net>

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(-)

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",
 };
 

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2.43.0