From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> The validation data is only used within the policy that should usually already be const, and isn't changed in any code that uses it. Therefore, make the validation_data pointer const. While at it, remove the duplicate variable in the bitfield validation that I'd otherwise have to change to const. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> --- include/net/netlink.h | 2 +- lib/nlattr.c | 5 ++--- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h index b680fe365e91..0d698215d4d9 100644 --- a/include/net/netlink.h +++ b/include/net/netlink.h @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ enum { struct nla_policy { u16 type; u16 len; - void *validation_data; + const void *validation_data; }; #define NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN(_len) { .type = NLA_EXACT_LEN, .len = _len } diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c index 120ad569e13d..e2e5b38394d5 100644 --- a/lib/nlattr.c +++ b/lib/nlattr.c @@ -45,12 +45,11 @@ static const u8 nla_attr_minlen[NLA_TYPE_MAX+1] = { }; static int validate_nla_bitfield32(const struct nlattr *nla, - u32 *valid_flags_allowed) + const u32 *valid_flags_mask) { const struct nla_bitfield32 *bf = nla_data(nla); - u32 *valid_flags_mask = valid_flags_allowed; - if (!valid_flags_allowed) + if (!valid_flags_mask) return -EINVAL; /*disallow invalid bit selector */ -- 2.14.4