netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v6 06/12] page_pool: constify some read-only function arguments

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 18:14:09 +0200
From: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>
To: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
	Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com>, Michal Kubiak <michal.kubiak@...el.com>, 
	Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@...el.com>, Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@...com>, 
	Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com>, David Christensen <drc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, 
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>, Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 06/12] page_pool: constify some read-only
 function arguments

Apologies for the noise,
Resending without HTML


On Thu, 7 Dec 2023 at 19:22, Alexander Lobakin
<aleksander.lobakin@...el.com> wrote:
>
> There are several functions taking pointers to data they don't modify.
> This includes statistics fetching, page and page_pool parameters, etc.
> Constify the pointers, so that call sites will be able to pass const
> pointers as well.
> No functional changes, no visible changes in functions sizes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
> ---
>  include/net/page_pool/helpers.h | 10 +++++-----
>  net/core/page_pool.c            |  8 ++++----
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/net/page_pool/helpers.h b/include/net/page_pool/helpers.h
> index 7dc65774cde5..c860fad50d00 100644
> --- a/include/net/page_pool/helpers.h
> +++ b/include/net/page_pool/helpers.h
> @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
>  /* Deprecated driver-facing API, use netlink instead */
>  int page_pool_ethtool_stats_get_count(void);
>  u8 *page_pool_ethtool_stats_get_strings(u8 *data);
> -u64 *page_pool_ethtool_stats_get(u64 *data, void *stats);
> +u64 *page_pool_ethtool_stats_get(u64 *data, const void *stats);
>
>  bool page_pool_get_stats(const struct page_pool *pool,
>                          struct page_pool_stats *stats);
> @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static inline u8 *page_pool_ethtool_stats_get_strings(u8 *data)
>         return data;
>  }
>
> -static inline u64 *page_pool_ethtool_stats_get(u64 *data, void *stats)
> +static inline u64 *page_pool_ethtool_stats_get(u64 *data, const void *stats)
>  {
>         return data;
>  }
> @@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ static inline void *page_pool_dev_alloc_va(struct page_pool *pool,
>   * Get the stored dma direction. A driver might decide to store this locally
>   * and avoid the extra cache line from page_pool to determine the direction.
>   */
> -static
> -inline enum dma_data_direction page_pool_get_dma_dir(struct page_pool *pool)
> +static inline enum dma_data_direction
> +page_pool_get_dma_dir(const struct page_pool *pool)
>  {
>         return pool->p.dma_dir;
>  }
> @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ static inline void page_pool_free_va(struct page_pool *pool, void *va,
>   * Fetch the DMA address of the page. The page pool to which the page belongs
>   * must had been created with PP_FLAG_DMA_MAP.
>   */
> -static inline dma_addr_t page_pool_get_dma_addr(struct page *page)
> +static inline dma_addr_t page_pool_get_dma_addr(const struct page *page)
>  {
>         dma_addr_t ret = page->dma_addr;
>
> diff --git a/net/core/page_pool.c b/net/core/page_pool.c
> index 59aca3339222..4295aec0be40 100644
> --- a/net/core/page_pool.c
> +++ b/net/core/page_pool.c
> @@ -121,9 +121,9 @@ int page_pool_ethtool_stats_get_count(void)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_pool_ethtool_stats_get_count);
>
> -u64 *page_pool_ethtool_stats_get(u64 *data, void *stats)
> +u64 *page_pool_ethtool_stats_get(u64 *data, const void *stats)
>  {
> -       struct page_pool_stats *pool_stats = stats;
> +       const struct page_pool_stats *pool_stats = stats;
>
>         *data++ = pool_stats->alloc_stats.fast;
>         *data++ = pool_stats->alloc_stats.slow;
> @@ -360,8 +360,8 @@ static struct page *__page_pool_get_cached(struct page_pool *pool)
>         return page;
>  }
>
> -static void page_pool_dma_sync_for_device(struct page_pool *pool,
> -                                         struct page *page,
> +static void page_pool_dma_sync_for_device(const struct page_pool *pool,
> +                                         const struct page *page,
>                                           unsigned int dma_sync_size)
>  {
>         dma_addr_t dma_addr = page_pool_get_dma_addr(page);
> --
> 2.43.0
>

Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>