RDMA, core and ULPs: Declare ib_post_send() and ib_post_recv() arguments const

Since neither ib_post_send() nor ib_post_recv() modify the data structure
their second argument points at, declare that argument const. This change
makes it necessary to declare the 'bad_wr' argument const too and also to
modify all ULPs that call ib_post_send(), ib_post_recv() or
ib_post_srq_recv(). This patch does not change any functionality but makes
it possible for the compiler to verify whether the
ib_post_(send|recv|srq_recv) really do not modify the posted work request.

To make this possible, only one cast had to be introduce that casts away
constness, namely in rpcrdma_post_recvs(). The only way I can think of to
avoid that cast is to introduce an additional loop in that function or to
change the data type of bad_wr from struct ib_recv_wr ** into int
(an index that refers to an element in the work request list). However,
both approaches would require even more extensive changes than this
patch.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/srq.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/srq.c
index 0af7b7905550..f9dc2b79a51f 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/srq.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/srq.c
@@ -440,8 +440,8 @@ void mlx5_ib_free_srq_wqe(struct mlx5_ib_srq *srq, int wqe_index)
 	spin_unlock(&srq->lock);
 }
 
-int mlx5_ib_post_srq_recv(struct ib_srq *ibsrq, struct ib_recv_wr *wr,
-			  struct ib_recv_wr **bad_wr)
+int mlx5_ib_post_srq_recv(struct ib_srq *ibsrq, const struct ib_recv_wr *wr,
+			  const struct ib_recv_wr **bad_wr)
 {
 	struct mlx5_ib_srq *srq = to_msrq(ibsrq);
 	struct mlx5_wqe_srq_next_seg *next;