[PATCH] of: declare string literals const

From: Christian Göttsche
Date: Wed Oct 12 2022 - 13:46:40 EST


of_overlay_action_name() returns a string literal from a function local
array. Modifying string literals is undefined behavior which usage of
const pointer can avoid. of_overlay_action_name() is currently only
used once in overlay_notify() to print the returned value.

While on it declare the data array const as well.

Reported by Clang:

In file included from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:22:
In file included from arch/x86/kernel/../kvm/vmx/vmx.h:5:
In file included from ./include/linux/kvm_host.h:19:
In file included from ./include/linux/msi.h:23:
In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/msi.h:5:
In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/irqdomain.h:5:
In file included from ./include/linux/irqdomain.h:35:
./include/linux/of.h:1555:3: error: initializing 'char *' with an expression of type 'const char[5]' discards qualifiers [-Werror,-Wincompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers]
"init",
^~~~~~
./include/linux/of.h:1556:3: error: initializing 'char *' with an expression of type 'const char[10]' discards qualifiers [-Werror,-Wincompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers]
"pre-apply",
^~~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/of.h:1557:3: error: initializing 'char *' with an expression of type 'const char[11]' discards qualifiers [-Werror,-Wincompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers]
"post-apply",
^~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/of.h:1558:3: error: initializing 'char *' with an expression of type 'const char[11]' discards qualifiers [-Werror,-Wincompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers]
"pre-remove",
^~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/of.h:1559:3: error: initializing 'char *' with an expression of type 'const char[12]' discards qualifiers [-Werror,-Wincompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers]
"post-remove",
^~~~~~~~~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/of.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/of.h b/include/linux/of.h
index 6b79ef9a6541..8b9f94386dc3 100644
--- a/include/linux/of.h
+++ b/include/linux/of.h
@@ -1549,9 +1549,9 @@ enum of_overlay_notify_action {
OF_OVERLAY_POST_REMOVE,
};

-static inline char *of_overlay_action_name(enum of_overlay_notify_action action)
+static inline const char *of_overlay_action_name(enum of_overlay_notify_action action)
{
- static char *of_overlay_action_name[] = {
+ static const char *const of_overlay_action_name[] = {
"init",
"pre-apply",
"post-apply",
--
2.37.2