netdev - [PATCH 3/3 v2] net: netlink: constify genl

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Message-Id: <1503482923-21640-1-git-send-email-arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:38:43 +0530
From:   Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net, Larry.Finger@...inger.net,
        chaoming_li@...lsil.com.cn, kvalo@...eaurora.org,
        jon.maloy@...csson.com, ying.xue@...driver.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3 v2] net: netlink: constify genl_ops

genl_ops are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
working with genl_ops provided by <net/genetlink.h> work with
const genl_ops. So mark the non-const structs as const.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
---
Changes in v2:
             Patch Subject was wrong.

 net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
index 750949d..e48f0b2 100644
--- a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
+++ b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
@@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ static int tipc_nl_compat_recv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 	return err;
 }
 
-static struct genl_ops tipc_genl_compat_ops[] = {
+static const struct genl_ops tipc_genl_compat_ops[] = {
 	{
 		.cmd		= TIPC_GENL_CMD,
 		.doit		= tipc_nl_compat_recv,
-- 
1.9.1