4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 9d0513d82f1a8fe17b41f113ac5922fa57dbaf5c ] So one of the constification patches unearthed a type casting fragility of the underlying code: 276c87054751 ("x86/platform/intel-mid: Make 'bt_sfi_data' const") converted the struct to be const while it is also used as a temporary container for important data that is used to fill 'parent' and 'name' fields in struct platform_device_info. The compiler doesn't notice this due to an explicit type cast that loses the const - which fragility will be fixed separately. This type cast turned a seemingly trivial const propagation patch into a hard to debug data corruptor and crasher bug. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: julia.lawall@xxxxxxx Cc: platform-driver-x86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171228122523.21802-1-andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_bt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_bt.c +++ b/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_bt.c @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static int __init tng_bt_sfi_setup(struc return 0; } -static const struct bt_sfi_data tng_bt_sfi_data __initdata = { +static struct bt_sfi_data tng_bt_sfi_data __initdata = { .setup = tng_bt_sfi_setup, };