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[BACKPORT,4.4.y,01/25] mmc: pwrseq: constify mmc_pwrseq_ops structures

Message ID 20190322154425.3852517-2-arnd@arndb.de
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Series [BACKPORT,4.4.y,01/25] mmc: pwrseq: constify mmc_pwrseq_ops structures | expand

Commit Message

Arnd Bergmann March 22, 2019, 3:43 p.m. UTC 
From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>


The mmc_pwrseq_ops structures are never modified, so declare them as const.

Done with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>

Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>

(cherry picked from commit ffedbd2210f2f4cba490a9205adc11fd1b89a852)
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

---
 drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq.h        | 2 +-
 drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq_emmc.c   | 2 +-
 drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq_simple.c | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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2.20.0

Comments

Arnd Bergmann March 26, 2019, 8:11 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 2:22 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 04:43:52PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:


> >  }

> >

> > -static struct mmc_pwrseq_ops mmc_pwrseq_simple_ops = {

> > +static const struct mmc_pwrseq_ops mmc_pwrseq_simple_ops = {

> >       .pre_power_on = mmc_pwrseq_simple_pre_power_on,

> >       .post_power_on = mmc_pwrseq_simple_post_power_on,

> >       .power_off = mmc_pwrseq_simple_power_off,

>

> Why is this needed for a stable patch?  It doesn't fix a bug, it just

> looks like it is a "nice thing" to have, right?  I don't think any later

> patch in this series relies it it, or am I missing something?


Right, the benefit here is rather small. In theory, any structure of
function pointers is a place into which an exploit can be placed
in case someone finds a way to modify a few bytes of kernel
memory. Placing the structures in read-only memory make this
a little harder (it doesn't prevent rowhammer attacks though).

Dropping this patch is certainly fine with me, as we have a large
supply of other structure definitions like this, and we wont' get close to
plugging enough of them in stable kernels.

       Arnd
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq.h b/drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq.h
index 096da48c6a7e..133de0426687 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq.h
+++ b/drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq.h
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@  struct mmc_pwrseq_ops {
 };
 
 struct mmc_pwrseq {
-	struct mmc_pwrseq_ops *ops;
+	const struct mmc_pwrseq_ops *ops;
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_OF
diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq_emmc.c b/drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq_emmc.c
index ad4f94ec7e8d..4a82bc77fe49 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq_emmc.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq_emmc.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@  static void mmc_pwrseq_emmc_free(struct mmc_host *host)
 	kfree(pwrseq);
 }
 
-static struct mmc_pwrseq_ops mmc_pwrseq_emmc_ops = {
+static const struct mmc_pwrseq_ops mmc_pwrseq_emmc_ops = {
 	.post_power_on = mmc_pwrseq_emmc_reset,
 	.free = mmc_pwrseq_emmc_free,
 };
diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq_simple.c b/drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq_simple.c
index d10538bb5e07..2b16263458af 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq_simple.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq_simple.c
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@  static void mmc_pwrseq_simple_free(struct mmc_host *host)
 	kfree(pwrseq);
 }
 
-static struct mmc_pwrseq_ops mmc_pwrseq_simple_ops = {
+static const struct mmc_pwrseq_ops mmc_pwrseq_simple_ops = {
 	.pre_power_on = mmc_pwrseq_simple_pre_power_on,
 	.post_power_on = mmc_pwrseq_simple_post_power_on,
 	.power_off = mmc_pwrseq_simple_power_off,