Re: [PATCH 3/3 v2] net: netlink: constify genl_ops

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Wed Aug 23 2017 - 06:20:39 EST


Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> genl_ops are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
> working with genl_ops provided by <net/genetlink.h> work with
> const genl_ops. So mark the non-const structs as const.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> Patch Subject was wrong.
>
> net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

I don't think the title is still misleading. Other patches have used
"tipc:", I think you should use the same:

$ git log --oneline --no-merges -20 net/tipc
41c6d650f653 net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
343eba69c696 net: tipc: Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug in tipc_msg_reverse
844cf763fba6 tipc: make macro tipc_wait_for_cond() smp safe
ec8a09fbbeff tipc: refactor function tipc_sk_recv_stream()
e9f8b10101c6 tipc: refactor function tipc_sk_recvmsg()
c1be7756284b tipc: close the connection if protocol messages contain errors
4e0df4951e9e tipc: improve error validations for sockets in CONNECTING state
42b531de17d2 tipc: Fix missing connection request handling
05ff8378975a tipc: fix socket flow control accounting error at tipc_recv_stream
3364d61c92ec tipc: fix socket flow control accounting error at tipc_send_stream
78302fd40576 tipc: check return value of nlmsg_new
fe52145f91fe netlink: pass extended ACK struct where available
fceb6435e852 netlink: pass extended ACK struct to parsing functions
66bc1e8d5d1d tipc: allow rdm/dgram socketpairs
70b03759e9ec tipc: add support for stream/seqpacket socketpairs
7efea60dcffc tipc: adjust the policy of holding subscription kref
139bb36f754a tipc: advance the time of deleting subscription from subscriber->subscrp_list
557d054c01da tipc: fix nametbl deadlock at tipc_nametbl_unsubscribe
cdfbabfb2f0c net: Work around lockdep limitation in sockets that use sockets
174cd4b1e5fb sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h>

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Kalle Valo