Currently a kvm_device_ops structure cannot be const without triggering compiler warnings. However the structure doesn't need to be written to and, by marking it const, it can be read-only in memory. Add some more const keywords to allow this. Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx> --- include/linux/kvm_host.h | 4 ++-- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h index bf0ae1825b9c..4e65f7566913 100644 --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h @@ -1260,7 +1260,7 @@ extern unsigned int halt_poll_ns_grow_start; extern unsigned int halt_poll_ns_shrink; struct kvm_device { - struct kvm_device_ops *ops; + const struct kvm_device_ops *ops; struct kvm *kvm; void *private; struct list_head vm_node; @@ -1313,7 +1313,7 @@ struct kvm_device_ops { void kvm_device_get(struct kvm_device *dev); void kvm_device_put(struct kvm_device *dev); struct kvm_device *kvm_device_from_filp(struct file *filp); -int kvm_register_device_ops(struct kvm_device_ops *ops, u32 type); +int kvm_register_device_ops(const struct kvm_device_ops *ops, u32 type); void kvm_unregister_device_ops(u32 type); extern struct kvm_device_ops kvm_mpic_ops; diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c index e6de3159e682..e9bb79a1022b 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -3045,14 +3045,14 @@ struct kvm_device *kvm_device_from_filp(struct file *filp) return filp->private_data; } -static struct kvm_device_ops *kvm_device_ops_table[KVM_DEV_TYPE_MAX] = { +static const struct kvm_device_ops *kvm_device_ops_table[KVM_DEV_TYPE_MAX] = { #ifdef CONFIG_KVM_MPIC [KVM_DEV_TYPE_FSL_MPIC_20] = &kvm_mpic_ops, [KVM_DEV_TYPE_FSL_MPIC_42] = &kvm_mpic_ops, #endif }; -int kvm_register_device_ops(struct kvm_device_ops *ops, u32 type) +int kvm_register_device_ops(const struct kvm_device_ops *ops, u32 type) { if (type >= ARRAY_SIZE(kvm_device_ops_table)) return -ENOSPC; @@ -3073,7 +3073,7 @@ void kvm_unregister_device_ops(u32 type) static int kvm_ioctl_create_device(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_create_device *cd) { - struct kvm_device_ops *ops = NULL; + const struct kvm_device_ops *ops = NULL; struct kvm_device *dev; bool test = cd->flags & KVM_CREATE_DEVICE_TEST; int type; -- 2.20.1