linux-kernel - [PATCH] ACPI: bus: make acpi_bus

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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 12:37:11 -0300
From: "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@...liere.net>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, 
 Robert Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>
Cc: linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 acpica-devel@...ts.linux.dev, 
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
 "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@...liere.net>
Subject: [PATCH] ACPI: bus: make acpi_bus_type const

Now that the driver core can properly handle constant struct bus_type,
move the acpi_bus_type 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/acpi/bus.c      | 2 +-
 include/acpi/acpi_bus.h | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/bus.c b/drivers/acpi/bus.c
index 569bd15f211b..d9fa730416f1 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/bus.c
@@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@ static void acpi_device_remove(struct device *dev)
 	put_device(dev);
 }

-struct bus_type acpi_bus_type = {
+const struct bus_type acpi_bus_type = {
 	.name		= "acpi",
 	.match		= acpi_bus_match,
 	.probe		= acpi_device_probe,
diff --git a/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h b/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h
index e4d24d3f9abb..f67aa93ba53e 100644
--- a/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h
+++ b/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h
@@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ void acpi_initialize_hp_context(struct acpi_device *adev,
 				void (*uevent)(struct acpi_device *, u32));

 /* acpi_device.dev.bus == &acpi_bus_type */
-extern struct bus_type acpi_bus_type;
+extern const struct bus_type acpi_bus_type;

 int acpi_bus_for_each_dev(int (*fn)(struct device *, void *), void *data);
 int acpi_dev_for_each_child(struct acpi_device *adev,

---
base-commit: c3c4923f2082353762e8f46dec6e3b0f165a1606
change-id: 20240211-bus_cleanup-acpi-7ad5cc04089c

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