Commit 042edf1e authored by Thomas Weißschuh's avatar Thomas Weißschuh Committed by Luis Chamberlain
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module: make module_ktype structure constant 



Since commit ee6d3dd4 ("driver core: make kobj_type constant.")
the driver core allows the usage of const struct kobj_type.

Take advantage of this to constify the structure definition to prevent
modification at runtime.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
parent efaa2496

include/linux/module.h

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@@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ void *dereference_module_function_descriptor(struct module *mod, void *ptr) 


#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS

extern struct kset *module_kset;

extern struct kobj_type module_ktype;

extern const struct kobj_type module_ktype;

#endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */



#define symbol_request(x) try_then_request_module(symbol_get(x), "symbol:" #x)

kernel/params.c

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@@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ static void module_kobj_release(struct kobject *kobj) 
	complete(mk->kobj_completion);

}



struct kobj_type module_ktype = {

const struct kobj_type module_ktype = {

	.release   =	module_kobj_release,

	.sysfs_ops =	&module_sysfs_ops,

};