netdev - [PATCH net-next 05/10] net: make net sysfs attributes ro_after

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Message-Id: <20170818204628.17147-6-sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Aug 2017 13:46:23 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 05/10] net: make net sysfs attributes ro_after_init

The attributes of net devices are immutable.

Ideally, attribute groups would contain const attributes
but there are too many places that do modifications of list
during startup (in other code) to allow that.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>
---
 net/core/net-sysfs.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index 2de441692f28..76ec74d4a65b 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ static ssize_t phys_switch_id_show(struct device *dev,
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(phys_switch_id);
 
-static struct attribute *net_class_attrs[] = {
+static struct attribute *net_class_attrs[] __ro_after_init = {
 	&dev_attr_netdev_group.attr,
 	&dev_attr_type.attr,
 	&dev_attr_dev_id.attr,
@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ NETSTAT_ENTRY(rx_compressed);
 NETSTAT_ENTRY(tx_compressed);
 NETSTAT_ENTRY(rx_nohandler);
 
-static struct attribute *netstat_attrs[] = {
+static struct attribute *netstat_attrs[] __ro_after_init = {
 	&dev_attr_rx_packets.attr,
 	&dev_attr_tx_packets.attr,
 	&dev_attr_rx_bytes.attr,
-- 
2.11.0