Re: [PATCH 3/3 v2] net: netlink: constify genl_ops
From: Kalle Valo <hidden>
Date: 2017-08-23 10:20:34
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Arvind Yadav [off-list ref] 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 <redacted>
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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> -- Kalle Valo