[PATCH v3 02/23] drm: remove drm_vblank_no_hw_counter assignment from driver code

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at armlinux.org.uk
Tue Feb 7 10:44:49 UTC 2017


On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 12:42:15PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On an unrelated note, for security reasons we should try to make the driver 
> structure static, or at least move ops to a static structure.

ITYM "const" not "static".

"static" doesn't get you anything from a security point of view.  "const"
gets you write protection, so code can't modify the function pointers.

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