[PATCH] ftrace: Change unsigned char *new, *old to const

[John Kacur]

This removes the warning:
arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c: In function ¡ftrace_make_nop¢:
/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:308: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type

Steven Rostedt suggested to make these pointers const pointers.

This patch assumes that
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/798172/
is applied first.

Reported-by: Eduardo Silva <edsiper@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c |   12 ++++++------
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
index 0ba15a6..e4f23d1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ static unsigned char *ftrace_call_replace(unsigned long ip, unsigned long addr)
 static atomic_t nmi_running = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
 static int mod_code_status;		/* holds return value of text write */
 static void *mod_code_ip;		/* holds the IP to write to */
-static void *mod_code_newcode;		/* holds the text to write to the IP */
+static const void *mod_code_newcode;	/* holds the text to write to the IP */
 
 static unsigned nmi_wait_count;
 static atomic_t nmi_update_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ within(unsigned long addr, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 }
 
 static int
-do_ftrace_mod_code(unsigned long ip, void *new_code)
+do_ftrace_mod_code(unsigned long ip, const void *new_code)
 {
 	/*
 	 * On x86_64, kernel text mappings are mapped read-only with
@@ -266,8 +266,8 @@ static const unsigned char *ftrace_nop_replace(void)
 }
 
 static int
-ftrace_modify_code(unsigned long ip, unsigned char *old_code,
-		   unsigned char *new_code)
+ftrace_modify_code(unsigned long ip, const unsigned char *old_code,
+		   const unsigned char *new_code)
 {
 	unsigned char replaced[MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE];
 
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ ftrace_modify_code(unsigned long ip, unsigned char *old_code,
 int ftrace_make_nop(struct module *mod,
 		    struct dyn_ftrace *rec, unsigned long addr)
 {
-	unsigned char *new, *old;
+	const unsigned char *new, *old;
 	unsigned long ip = rec->ip;
 
 	old = ftrace_call_replace(ip, addr);
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ int ftrace_make_nop(struct module *mod,
 
 int ftrace_make_call(struct dyn_ftrace *rec, unsigned long addr)
 {
-	unsigned char *new, *old;
+	const unsigned char *new, *old;
 	unsigned long ip = rec->ip;
 
 	old = ftrace_nop_replace();
-- 
1.7.2.3

---1463803646-1583054631-1306180886=:4933--
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