linux-kernel - [PATCH] virtio: make virtio

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Message-Id: <20240204-bus_cleanup-virtio-v1-1-3bcb2212aaa0@marliere.net>
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2024 17:52:51 -0300
From: "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@...liere.net>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>, 
 Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: virtualization@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
 "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@...liere.net>
Subject: [PATCH] virtio: make virtio_bus const

Now that the driver core can properly handle constant struct bus_type,
move the virtio_bus 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>
---
 drivers/virtio/virtio.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
index f4080692b351..a68e6556f71b 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ static void virtio_dev_remove(struct device *_d)
 	of_node_put(dev->dev.of_node);
 }

-static struct bus_type virtio_bus = {
+static const struct bus_type virtio_bus = {
 	.name  = "virtio",
 	.match = virtio_dev_match,
 	.dev_groups = virtio_dev_groups,

---
base-commit: 41b9fb381a486360b2daaec0c7480f8e3ff72bc7
change-id: 20240204-bus_cleanup-virtio-9f076c3cb068

Best regards,
-- 
Ricardo B. Marliere <ricardo@...liere.net>