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| author | Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@google.com> | 2021-12-25 02:13:45 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2021-12-27 12:40:00 +0300 |
| commit | ee6d3dd4ed48ab24b74bab3c3977b8218518247d (patch) | |
| tree | f5d2c211fb55a757d64e74b2b8fcb6e7211ae19e /Documentation/core-api | |
| parent | 67e532a42cf4c6c214ed39e33e617bca29508f4e (diff) | |
| download | linux-ee6d3dd4ed48ab24b74bab3c3977b8218518247d.tar.xz | |
driver core: make kobj_type constant.
This way instances of kobj_type (which contain function pointers) can be
stored in .rodata, which means that they cannot be [easily/accidentally]
modified at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211224231345.777370-1-wedsonaf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/core-api')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst b/Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst index 2739f8b72575..d3b5bf9f643a 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ Initialization of kobjects Code which creates a kobject must, of course, initialize that object. Some of the internal fields are setup with a (mandatory) call to kobject_init():: - void kobject_init(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_type *ktype); + void kobject_init(struct kobject *kobj, const struct kobj_type *ktype); The ktype is required for a kobject to be created properly, as every kobject must have an associated kobj_type. After calling kobject_init(), to @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ kobject_name():: There is a helper function to both initialize and add the kobject to the kernel at the same time, called surprisingly enough kobject_init_and_add():: - int kobject_init_and_add(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_type *ktype, + int kobject_init_and_add(struct kobject *kobj, const struct kobj_type *ktype, struct kobject *parent, const char *fmt, ...); The arguments are the same as the individual kobject_init() and |