Re: [PATCH v3] usb/hcd: Send a uevent signaling that the host controller had died

[Guenter Roeck]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 3:41 PM Raul Rangel <rrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 03:23:52PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 3:11 PM Raul Rangel <rrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 04:39:23PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This sounds like a golden opportunity!  Submit a separate patch making
> > > > the parameter to kobject_uevent_env be const (actually const char *
> > > > const []), then submit this patch on top of that one.
> > > So there are other parts of the code base that dynamically create their
> > > array values. So by making the function take const, it breaks :(
> >
> > Confused. The calling code can still be non-const. I don't see the
> > parameter modified in kobject_uevent_env(), so declaring it const
> > should be possible. Can you give an example of code that no longer
> > works ?
> static int notify_user_space(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, int trip)
> {
>         char *thermal_prop[5];
>         int i;
>
>         mutex_lock(&tz->lock);
>         thermal_prop[0] = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "NAME=%s", tz->type);
>         thermal_prop[1] = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "TEMP=%d", tz->temperature);
>         thermal_prop[2] = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "TRIP=%d", trip);
>         thermal_prop[3] = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "EVENT=%d", tz->notify_event);
>         thermal_prop[4] = NULL;
>         kobject_uevent_env(&tz->device.kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE, thermal_prop);
>         for (i = 0; i < 4; ++i)
>                 kfree(thermal_prop[i]);
>         mutex_unlock(&tz->lock);
>         return 0;
> }
>
> drivers/thermal/user_space.c:48:52: error: passing 'char *[5]' to parameter of type 'const char *const *' discards qualifiers in nested pointer types [-Werror,-Wincompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers]
>         kobject_uevent_env(&tz->device.kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE, thermal_prop);
>                                                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> include/linux/kobject.h:238:22: note: passing argument to parameter 'envp' here
>                         const char *const envp[]);
>                                           ^
>
> http://c-faq.com/ansi/constmismatch.html explains why it fails.
>
Interesting. One never stops learning. So the best you could do would
be char * const envp[], but I guess that doesn't help much.

Guenter

> Raul
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Guenter
> >
> > > >
> > > > Alan Stern
> > > >