Since commit aed65af1cc2f ("drivers: make device_type const"), the driver
core can properly handle constant struct device_type. Move the vxlan_type
variable to be a constant structure as well, placing it into read-only
memory which can not be modified at runtime.Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c index 705a6fd6ab6c..386cbe4d3327 100644 --- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c +++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c @@ -3254,7 +3254,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops vxlan_netdev_raw_ops = { }; /* Info for udev, that this is a virtual tunnel endpoint */ -static struct device_type vxlan_type = { +static const struct device_type vxlan_type = { .name = "vxlan", }; -- 2.43.0
