This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
constify iov_iter_count() and iter_is_iovec()
to the 4.8-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:
constify-iov_iter_count-and-iter_is_iovec.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From b57332b4105abf1d518d93886e547ee2f98cd414 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:57:37 -0400
Subject: constify iov_iter_count() and iter_is_iovec()
From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit b57332b4105abf1d518d93886e547ee2f98cd414 upstream.
[stable note, need this to prevent build warning in commit
a0ac402cfcdc904f9772e1762b3fda112dcc56a0]
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/uio.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/uio.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio.h
@@ -102,12 +102,12 @@ int iov_iter_npages(const struct iov_ite
const void *dup_iter(struct iov_iter *new, struct iov_iter *old, gfp_t flags);
-static inline size_t iov_iter_count(struct iov_iter *i)
+static inline size_t iov_iter_count(const struct iov_iter *i)
{
return i->count;
}
-static inline bool iter_is_iovec(struct iov_iter *i)
+static inline bool iter_is_iovec(const struct iov_iter *i)
{
return !(i->type & (ITER_BVEC | ITER_KVEC));
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.8/constify-iov_iter_count-and-iter_is_iovec.patch
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