As it is, it takes const char * and, in some cases, stores it in caller's variable that is plain char *. Fortunately, none of the callers actually proceeded to modify the string via now-non-const alias, but that's trouble waiting to happen. It's easy to do properly, anyway... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c | 25 +++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c b/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c index e4617ccf0a23..b1fa30fefe1f 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c +++ b/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c @@ -81,23 +81,24 @@ static void refresh_cache_worker(struct work_struct *work); static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(refresh_task, refresh_cache_worker); -static int get_normalized_path(const char *path, char **npath) +static int get_normalized_path(const char *path, const char **npath) { if (!path || strlen(path) < 3 || (*path != '\\' && *path != '/')) return -EINVAL; if (*path == '\\') { - *npath = (char *)path; + *npath = path; } else { - *npath = kstrdup(path, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!*npath) + char *s = kstrdup(path, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!s) return -ENOMEM; - convert_delimiter(*npath, '\\'); + convert_delimiter(s, '\\'); + *npath = s; } return 0; } -static inline void free_normalized_path(const char *path, char *npath) +static inline void free_normalized_path(const char *path, const char *npath) { if (path != npath) kfree(npath); @@ -882,7 +883,7 @@ int dfs_cache_find(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_ses *ses, struct dfs_cache_tgt_list *tgt_list) { int rc; - char *npath; + const char *npath; struct cache_entry *ce; rc = get_normalized_path(path, &npath); @@ -936,7 +937,7 @@ int dfs_cache_noreq_find(const char *path, struct dfs_info3_param *ref, struct dfs_cache_tgt_list *tgt_list) { int rc; - char *npath; + const char *npath; struct cache_entry *ce; rc = get_normalized_path(path, &npath); @@ -991,7 +992,7 @@ int dfs_cache_update_tgthint(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_ses *ses, const struct dfs_cache_tgt_iterator *it) { int rc; - char *npath; + const char *npath; struct cache_entry *ce; struct cache_dfs_tgt *t; @@ -1053,7 +1054,7 @@ int dfs_cache_noreq_update_tgthint(const char *path, const struct dfs_cache_tgt_iterator *it) { int rc; - char *npath; + const char *npath; struct cache_entry *ce; struct cache_dfs_tgt *t; @@ -1111,7 +1112,7 @@ int dfs_cache_get_tgt_referral(const char *path, struct dfs_info3_param *ref) { int rc; - char *npath; + const char *npath; struct cache_entry *ce; if (!it || !ref) @@ -1484,7 +1485,7 @@ static int refresh_tcon(struct vol_info *vi, struct cifs_tcon *tcon) { int rc = 0; unsigned int xid; - char *path, *npath; + const char *path, *npath; struct cache_entry *ce; struct cifs_ses *root_ses = NULL, *ses; struct dfs_info3_param *refs = NULL; -- 2.11.0