linux-kernel - [PATCH] thunderbolt: make tb_bus

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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:43:05 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@...il.com>,
	Michael Jamet <michael.jamet@...el.com>,
	Yehezkel Bernat <YehezkelShB@...il.com>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] thunderbolt: make tb_bus_type const

Now that the driver core can properly handle constant struct bus_type,
move the tb_bus_type variable to be a constant structure as well,
placing it into read-only memory which can not be modified at runtime.

Cc: Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@...il.com>
Cc: Michael Jamet <michael.jamet@...el.com>
Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Yehezkel Bernat <YehezkelShB@...il.com>
Cc: linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/thunderbolt/domain.c | 2 +-
 include/linux/thunderbolt.h  | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/thunderbolt/domain.c b/drivers/thunderbolt/domain.c
index ec7b5f65804e..9fb1a64f3300 100644
--- a/drivers/thunderbolt/domain.c
+++ b/drivers/thunderbolt/domain.c
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ static const struct attribute_group *domain_attr_groups[] = {
 	NULL,
 };
 
-struct bus_type tb_bus_type = {
+const struct bus_type tb_bus_type = {
 	.name = "thunderbolt",
 	.match = tb_service_match,
 	.probe = tb_service_probe,
diff --git a/include/linux/thunderbolt.h b/include/linux/thunderbolt.h
index 6151c210d987..2c835e5c41f6 100644
--- a/include/linux/thunderbolt.h
+++ b/include/linux/thunderbolt.h
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ struct tb {
 	unsigned long privdata[];
 };
 
-extern struct bus_type tb_bus_type;
+extern const struct bus_type tb_bus_type;
 extern struct device_type tb_service_type;
 extern struct device_type tb_xdomain_type;
 
-- 
2.43.0