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Message-ID: <5dd2eceb-4108-4071-b7b5-1fcac0a9d2ef@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 09:25:40 +0200
From: Marion & Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
Cc: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
 kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, johannes@...solutions.net,
 philipp.g.hortmann@...il.com, tdavies@...kphysics.net,
 garyrookard@...tmail.org, straube.linux@...il.com,
 linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] lib80211: Handle const struct lib80211_crypto_ops in
 lib80211



Le 11/05/2024 à 23:47, Christophe JAILLET a écrit :
> Le 11/05/2024 à 22:31, Simon Horman a écrit :
>> On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 06:32:38PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
>>> lib80211_register_crypto_ops() and lib80211_unregister_crypto_ops() 
>>> don't
>>> modify their "struct lib80211_crypto_ops *ops" argument. So, it can be
>>> declared as const.
>>>
>>> Doing so, some adjustments are needed to also constify some date in
>>> "struct lib80211_crypt_data", "struct lib80211_crypto_alg" and the
>>> return value of lib80211_get_crypto_ops().
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
>>> ---
>>> Compile tested only.
>>
>> Hi Christophe,
>>
>> Unfortunately allmodconfig W=1 build on x86_64 with Clang says:
>>
>> .../libipw_wx.c:587:6: error: assigning to 'struct lib80211_crypto_ops 
>> *' from 'const struct lib80211_crypto_ops *' discards qualifiers 
>> [-Werror,-Wincompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers]
>>   587 |         ops = lib80211_get_crypto_ops(alg);
>>       |             ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> .../libipw_wx.c:590:7: error: assigning to 'struct lib80211_crypto_ops 
>> *' from 'const struct lib80211_crypto_ops *' discards qualifiers 
>> [-Werror,-Wincompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers]
>>   590 |                 ops = lib80211_get_crypto_ops(alg);
>>       |                     ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'll dig more tomorrow, but I don't see this error (with gcc), even with 
> W=1.
> 
> The following part of the patch is here to avoid the exact compilation 
> error that you see.
> 
> Strange.
> 
> CJ
> 

Ok, got it.
Thanks for the pointer.

I don't know how I missed this one. :(

I'll send a v2.

CJ

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