Once a report descriptor has been created by the HID core it is not supposed to be modified anymore. Enforce this invariant through the type system. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/hid.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/hid.h b/include/linux/hid.h index e7a5d6f2f2eb..dda34d8cad19 100644 --- a/include/linux/hid.h +++ b/include/linux/hid.h @@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ struct hid_ll_driver; struct hid_device { /* device report descriptor */ __u8 *dev_rdesc; unsigned dev_rsize; - __u8 *rdesc; + const __u8 *rdesc; unsigned rsize; struct hid_collection *collection; /* List of HID collections */ unsigned collection_size; /* Number of allocated hid_collections */ -- 2.46.0