[tip:x86/urgent] x86/platform/intel-mid: Revert "Make 'bt_sfi_data' const"

From: tip-bot for Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Jan 08 2018 - 15:39:00 EST


Commit-ID: 9d0513d82f1a8fe17b41f113ac5922fa57dbaf5c
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/9d0513d82f1a8fe17b41f113ac5922fa57dbaf5c
Author: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 14:25:23 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 20:01:44 +0100

x86/platform/intel-mid: Revert "Make 'bt_sfi_data' const"

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>
---
arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_bt.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_bt.c b/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_bt.c
index dc036e5..5a0483e 100644
--- 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(struct bt_sfi_data *ddata)
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,
};