Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 2 authors, 2021-10-13

Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: constify dev_addr passing for protocols

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org
Date: 2021-10-13 17:51:02
Also in: linux-hams

Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (master)
by Jakub Kicinski [off-list ref]:

On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 08:58:34 -0700 you wrote:
Commit 406f42fa0d3c ("net-next: When a bond have a massive amount
of VLANs...") introduced a rbtree for faster Ethernet address look
up. To maintain netdev->dev_addr in this tree we need to make all
the writes to it got through appropriate helpers.

netdev->dev_addr will be made const to prevent direct writes.
This set sprinkles const across variables and arguments in protocol
code which are used to hold references to netdev->dev_addr.

[...]
Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next,1/6] ax25: constify dev_addr passing
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/c045ad2cc01e
  - [net-next,2/6] rose: constify dev_addr passing
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/db95732446a8
  - [net-next,3/6] llc/snap: constify dev_addr passing
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/2ef6db76bac0
  - [net-next,4/6] ipv6: constify dev_addr passing
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/1a8a23d2da4f
  - [net-next,5/6] tipc: constify dev_addr passing
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/6cf862807234
  - [net-next,6/6] decnet: constify dev_addr passing
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/1bfcd1cc546e

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