Petr Kulhavy <[email protected]> writes:

> The musb_hdrc_platform_data::config was defined as a non-const pointer.
> However some drivers (e.g. the ux500) set up this pointer to point to a
> static structure, which is potentially dangerous. Since the musb core
> uses the pointer in a read-only manner the const qualifier was added to
> protect the content of the config.
>
> Signed-off-by: Petr Kulhavy <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <[email protected]>

Bin, any inputs ?

> ---
> v5: <initial>
>
> v6:
>  - whitespace formatting corrected
>
> v7: <no change>
>
>  drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.c | 2 +-
>  drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.h | 2 +-
>  include/linux/usb/musb.h     | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.c b/drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.c
> index ff7f5d0..7e94d65 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.c
> @@ -1938,7 +1938,7 @@ static void musb_recover_from_babble(struct musb *musb)
>   */
>
>  static struct musb *allocate_instance(struct device *dev,
> -             struct musb_hdrc_config *config, void __iomem *mbase)
> +             const struct musb_hdrc_config *config, void __iomem *mbase)
>  {
>       struct musb             *musb;
>       struct musb_hw_ep       *ep;
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.h b/drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.h
> index c2ee702..1d57f5c 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.h
> +++ b/drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.h
> @@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ struct musb {
>        */
>       unsigned                double_buffer_not_ok:1;
>
> -     struct musb_hdrc_config *config;
> +     const struct musb_hdrc_config *config;
>
>       int                     xceiv_old_state;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
> diff --git a/include/linux/usb/musb.h b/include/linux/usb/musb.h
> index 96ddfb7..0b3da40 100644
> --- a/include/linux/usb/musb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/usb/musb.h
> @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ struct musb_hdrc_platform_data {
>       int             (*set_power)(int state);
>
>       /* MUSB configuration-specific details */
> -     struct musb_hdrc_config *config;
> +     const struct musb_hdrc_config *config;
>
>       /* Architecture specific board data     */
>       void            *board_data;
> --
> 1.9.1
>

-- 
balbi

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