linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] kobject: make kobject_get_ownership() take a constant kobject *

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20221121121803.31962489@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 21 Nov 2022 12:18:03 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna@...nel.org>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] kobject: make kobject_get_ownership() take a
 constant kobject *

On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 10:46:45 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> The call, kobject_get_ownership(), does not modify the kobject passed
> into it, so make it const.  This propagates down into the kobj_type
> function callbacks so make the kobject passed into them also const,
> ensuring that nothing in the kobject is being changed here.
> 
> This helps make it more obvious what calls and callbacks do, and do not,
> modify structures passed to them.

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>