Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 3 authors, 2022-05-13

Re: [PATCH] security: declare member holding string literal const

From: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Date: 2022-02-17 22:50:41
Also in: lkml, llvm, selinux

On 2/17/2022 6:18 AM, Christian Göttsche wrote:
The struct security_hook_list member lsm is assigned in
security_add_hooks() with string literals passed from the individual
security modules.  Declare the function parameter and the struct member
const to signal their immutability.

Reported by Clang [-Wwrite-strings]:

     security/selinux/hooks.c:7388:63: error: passing 'const char [8]' to parameter of type 'char *' discards qualifiers [-Werror,-Wincompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers]
             security_add_hooks(selinux_hooks, ARRAY_SIZE(selinux_hooks), selinux);
                                                                          ^~~~~~~~~
     ./include/linux/lsm_hooks.h:1629:11: note: passing argument to parameter 'lsm' here
                                     char *lsm);
                                           ^

Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
  include/linux/lsm_hooks.h | 4 ++--
  security/security.c       | 2 +-
  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
index 419b5febc3ca..47cdf3fbecef 100644
--- a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
+++ b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
@@ -1595,7 +1595,7 @@ struct security_hook_list {
  	struct hlist_node		list;
  	struct hlist_head		*head;
  	union security_list_options	hook;
-	char				*lsm;
+	const char			*lsm;
  } __randomize_layout;
  
  /*
@@ -1630,7 +1630,7 @@ extern struct security_hook_heads security_hook_heads;
  extern char *lsm_names;
  
  extern void security_add_hooks(struct security_hook_list *hooks, int count,
-				char *lsm);
+				const char *lsm);
  
  #define LSM_FLAG_LEGACY_MAJOR	BIT(0)
  #define LSM_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE	BIT(1)
diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
index 9663ffcca4b0..a48eb3badfdd 100644
--- a/security/security.c
+++ b/security/security.c
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ static int lsm_append(const char *new, char **result)
   * Each LSM has to register its hooks with the infrastructure.
   */
  void __init security_add_hooks(struct security_hook_list *hooks, int count,
-				char *lsm)
+				const char *lsm)
  {
  	int i;
  
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