The empty_iov structure is only copied into another structure, so make it const. The opportunity for this change was found using Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxxx> --- net/sunrpc/xdr.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xdr.c b/net/sunrpc/xdr.c index f3104be8ff5d..e5497dc2475b 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/xdr.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/xdr.c @@ -1079,7 +1079,7 @@ void xdr_enter_page(struct xdr_stream *xdr, unsigned int len) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xdr_enter_page); -static struct kvec empty_iov = {.iov_base = NULL, .iov_len = 0}; +static const struct kvec empty_iov = {.iov_base = NULL, .iov_len = 0}; void xdr_buf_from_iov(struct kvec *iov, struct xdr_buf *buf)