IB/core: const'ify inbuf in struct ib_udata

Userspace input buffer is not modified by kernel, so it can be 'const'. This is also a prerequisite to remove the implicit cast from INIT_UDATA(). Link: http://marc.info/?i=cover.1386798254.git.ydroneaud@opteya.com> Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
git-mirror · Dec 16, 2013 · 309243e · 309243e
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diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs.h b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs.h
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 
 #define INIT_UDATA(udata, ibuf, obuf, ilen, olen)			\
 	do {								\
-		(udata)->inbuf  = (void __user *) (ibuf);		\
+		(udata)->inbuf  = (const void __user *) (ibuf);		\
 		(udata)->outbuf = (void __user *) (obuf);		\
 		(udata)->inlen  = (ilen);				\
 		(udata)->outlen = (olen);				\

diff --git a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
@@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ struct ib_uobject {
 };
 
 struct ib_udata {
-	void __user *inbuf;
+	const void __user *inbuf;
 	void __user *outbuf;
 	size_t       inlen;
 	size_t       outlen;