[PATCH 3/3 v3] net: tipc: constify genl_ops

[PATCH 3/3 v3] net: tipc: constify genl_ops

[Arvind Yadav]

genl_ops are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
working with genl_ops provided by <net/genetlink.h> work with
const genl_ops. So mark the non-const structs as const.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
             Patch Subject was wrong.
changes in v3 :
             Updated patch subject as per comment.

 net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
index 750949d..e48f0b2 100644
--- a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
+++ b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
@@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ static int tipc_nl_compat_recv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 	return err;
 }
 
-static struct genl_ops tipc_genl_compat_ops[] = {
+static const struct genl_ops tipc_genl_compat_ops[] = {
 	{
 		.cmd		= TIPC_GENL_CMD,
 		.doit		= tipc_nl_compat_recv,
-- 
1.9.1

Re: [PATCH 3/3 v3] net: tipc: constify genl_ops

[David Miller]

From: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:22:20 +0530

> genl_ops are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
> working with genl_ops provided by <net/genetlink.h> work with
> const genl_ops. So mark the non-const structs as const.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>

Applied.