This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rpmsg: Constify local variable in field store macro
to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
rpmsg-constify-local-variable-in-field-store-macro.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From stable-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Wed Oct 18 14:06:05 2023
From: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:05:47 +0100
Subject: rpmsg: Constify local variable in field store macro
To: lee@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <20231018120552.2110677-2-lee@xxxxxxxxxx>
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit e5f89131a06142e91073b6959d91cea73861d40e upstream.
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>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220419113435.246203-12-krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c
+++ b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c
@@ -332,7 +332,8 @@ field##_store(struct device *dev, struct
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) \
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from stable-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.19/rpmsg-fix-kfree-of-static-memory-on-setting-driver_override.patch
queue-4.19/rpmsg-constify-local-variable-in-field-store-macro.patch
queue-4.19/driver-platform-add-helper-for-safer-setting-of-driver_override.patch
