This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
i2c: i801: Annotate apanel_addr as __ro_after_init
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:
i2c-i801-annotate-apanel_addr-as-__ro_after_init.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.
commit 6be3eedf90ef4371afb3b090a6b0cfedd46ad0a3
Author: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Apr 12 12:21:58 2024 +0200
i2c: i801: Annotate apanel_addr as __ro_after_init
[ Upstream commit 355b1513b1e97b6cef84b786c6480325dfd3753d ]
Annotate this variable as __ro_after_init to protect it from being
overwritten later.
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c
index c18b899e510ec..c1e2539b79502 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c
@@ -1039,7 +1039,7 @@ static const struct pci_device_id i801_ids[] = {
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, i801_ids);
#if defined CONFIG_X86 && defined CONFIG_DMI
-static unsigned char apanel_addr;
+static unsigned char apanel_addr __ro_after_init;
/* Scan the system ROM for the signature "FJKEYINF" */
static __init const void __iomem *bios_signature(const void __iomem *bios)
