Memory pointed by variable 'old' in field store macro is not modified, so it can be made a pointer to const. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c index 79368a957d89..95fc283f6af7 100644 --- a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c +++ b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c @@ -400,7 +400,8 @@ field##_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, \ const char *buf, size_t sz) \ { \ struct rpmsg_device *rpdev = to_rpmsg_device(dev); \ - char *new, *old; \ + const char *old; \ + char *new; \ \ new = kstrndup(buf, sz, GFP_KERNEL); \ if (!new) \ -- 2.32.0