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> --- drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c index c1d4990beab02..458ddfc09120b 100644 --- a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c +++ b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c @@ -332,7 +332,8 @@ field##_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, \ 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) \ -- 2.42.0.820.g83a721a137-goog