[PATCH] drm/vboxvideo: Make structure vbox_fb_helper_funcs constant
Hans de Goede
hdegoede at redhat.com
Wed Aug 14 17:36:55 UTC 2019
Hi,
On 14-08-19 19:26, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 09:57:19AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 13-08-19 08:25, Nishka Dasgupta wrote:
>>> The static structure vbox_fb_helper_funcs, of type drm_fb_helper_funcs,
>>> is used only when it is passed as the third argument to
>>> drm_fb_helper_fbdev_setup(), which does not modify it. Hence make it
>>> constant to protect it from unintended modifications.
>>> Issue found with Coccinelle.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nishka Dasgupta <nishkadg.linux at gmail.com>
>>
>> Thank you for the patch, this looks good to me:
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
>
> I'm assuming you'll apply this to drm-misc-next too? Good to state that,
> to avoid confusion and coordination issues.
Actually I'm so used to the workflow in other subsystems I was
expecting the subsys maintainer to pick it up. But I know that
is not how it works for the drm subsys and since I'm the vboxvideo
maintainer I guess it makes sense for me to pick this up and push it.
So yes I will pick this up and push it to drm-misc-next, sorry
for the confusion.
Regards,
Hans
>>> ---
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_drv.c | 2 +-
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_drv.c
>>> index 02537ab9cc08..2b57ea3195f2 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_drv.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_drv.c
>>> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ static const struct pci_device_id pciidlist[] = {
>>> };
>>> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, pciidlist);
>>> -static struct drm_fb_helper_funcs vbox_fb_helper_funcs = {
>>> +static const struct drm_fb_helper_funcs vbox_fb_helper_funcs = {
>>> .fb_probe = vboxfb_create,
>>> };
>>>
>
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