linux-kernel - [PATCH] evm: mark evm_fixmode as __ro_after

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Message-ID: <20211028112642.GA1110@raspberrypi>
Date:   Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:26:42 +0100
From:   Austin Kim <austindh.kim@...il.com>
To:     zohar@...ux.ibm.com, jmorris@...ei.org, serge@...lyn.com
Cc:     linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, austin.kim@....com
Subject: [PATCH] evm: mark evm_fixmode as __ro_after_init

From: Austin Kim <austin.kim@....com>

The evm_fixmode is only configurable by command-line option and it is never
modified outside initcalls, so declaring it with __ro_after_init is better.

Signed-off-by: Austin Kim <austin.kim@....com>
---
 security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
index 1c8435dfabee..08f907382c61 100644
--- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
+++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static struct xattr_list evm_config_default_xattrnames[] = {
 
 LIST_HEAD(evm_config_xattrnames);
 
-static int evm_fixmode;
+static int evm_fixmode __ro_after_init;
 static int __init evm_set_fixmode(char *str)
 {
 	if (strncmp(str, "fix", 3) == 0)
-- 
2.20.1