[PATCH v5 2/4] device property: constify property arrays values

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Thu Feb 02 2017 - 20:42:09 EST


Data that is fed into property arrays should not be modified, so let's mark
relevant pointers as const. This will allow us making source arrays as
const/__initconst.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/property.c | 10 +++++-----
include/linux/property.h | 12 ++++++------
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/property.c b/drivers/base/property.c
index e9fa75645d69..31b942a29fdc 100644
--- a/drivers/base/property.c
+++ b/drivers/base/property.c
@@ -718,7 +718,8 @@ static void pset_free_set(struct property_set *pset)
static int pset_copy_entry(struct property_entry *dst,
const struct property_entry *src)
{
- const char **d, **s;
+ const char * const *s;
+ char **d;
size_t i, nval;

dst->name = kstrdup(src->name, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -731,12 +732,11 @@ static int pset_copy_entry(struct property_entry *dst,

if (src->is_string) {
nval = src->length / sizeof(const char *);
- dst->pointer.str = kcalloc(nval, sizeof(const char *),
- GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!dst->pointer.str)
+ d = kcalloc(nval, sizeof(const char *), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!d)
return -ENOMEM;

- d = dst->pointer.str;
+ dst->pointer.raw_data = d;
s = src->pointer.str;
for (i = 0; i < nval; i++) {
d[i] = kstrdup(s[i], GFP_KERNEL);
diff --git a/include/linux/property.h b/include/linux/property.h
index d37a4498b3ac..7a0a1cce5165 100644
--- a/include/linux/property.h
+++ b/include/linux/property.h
@@ -160,12 +160,12 @@ struct property_entry {
bool is_string;
union {
union {
- void *raw_data;
- u8 *u8_data;
- u16 *u16_data;
- u32 *u32_data;
- u64 *u64_data;
- const char **str;
+ const void *raw_data;
+ const u8 *u8_data;
+ const u16 *u16_data;
+ const u32 *u32_data;
+ const u64 *u64_data;
+ const char * const *str;
} pointer;
union {
unsigned long long raw_data;
--
2.11.0.483.g087da7b7c-goog