linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] clocksource: make clocksource

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Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2024 10:40:15 -0300
From: "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@...liere.net>
To: John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, 
 Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
 "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@...liere.net>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] clocksource: make clocksource_subsys const

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

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <ricardo@...liere.net>
---
 kernel/time/clocksource.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
index c108ed8a9804..4f0932f0a0f6 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
@@ -1445,7 +1445,7 @@ static struct attribute *clocksource_attrs[] = {
 };
 ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(clocksource);

-static struct bus_type clocksource_subsys = {
+static const struct bus_type clocksource_subsys = {
 	.name = "clocksource",
 	.dev_name = "clocksource",
 };

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2.43.0