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Date:   Wed, 22 Aug 2018 13:00:07 +0200
From:   Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] drivers/base/devtmpfs.c: don't pretend path is const in delete_path

path is the result of kstrdup, and we repeatedly call strrchr on it,
modifying it through the returned pointer. So there's no reason to
pretend path is const.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
---
 drivers/base/devtmpfs.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
index f7768077e817..b93fc862d365 100644
--- a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ static int dev_rmdir(const char *name)
 
 static int delete_path(const char *nodepath)
 {
-	const char *path;
+	char *path;
 	int err = 0;
 
 	path = kstrdup(nodepath, GFP_KERNEL);
-- 
2.16.4

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