genl_ops are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions working with genl_ops provided by <net/genetlink.h> work with const genl_ops. So mark the non-const structs as const.
Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav...@gmail.com> --- Changes in v2: Patch Subject was wrong. net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c index 750949d..e48f0b2 100644 --- a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c +++ b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c @@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ static int tipc_nl_compat_recv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) return err; } -static struct genl_ops tipc_genl_compat_ops[] = { +static const struct genl_ops tipc_genl_compat_ops[] = { { .cmd = TIPC_GENL_CMD, .doit = tipc_nl_compat_recv, -- 1.9.1