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authorTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>2013-07-25 05:44:02 +0900
committerJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>2013-07-25 19:30:03 +1000
commit9548906b2bb7ff09e12c013a55d669bef2c8e121 (patch)
treeb75ba2bc69d82c1040cac0ea9113a17b39e82b93 /include/linux/security.h
parentbe0306bcc3a0b0725b0f99b06d56a29a6d906b7c (diff)
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xattr: Constify ->name member of "struct xattr".
Since everybody sets kstrdup()ed constant string to "struct xattr"->name but nobody modifies "struct xattr"->name , we can omit kstrdup() and its failure checking by constifying ->name member of "struct xattr". Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Reviewed-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> [ocfs2] Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Tested-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/security.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/security.h8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
index 7ce53ae1266b..9d37e2b9d3ec 100644
--- a/include/linux/security.h
+++ b/include/linux/security.h
@@ -1492,7 +1492,7 @@ struct security_operations {
int (*inode_alloc_security) (struct inode *inode);
void (*inode_free_security) (struct inode *inode);
int (*inode_init_security) (struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir,
- const struct qstr *qstr, char **name,
+ const struct qstr *qstr, const char **name,
void **value, size_t *len);
int (*inode_create) (struct inode *dir,
struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode);
@@ -1770,7 +1770,7 @@ int security_inode_init_security(struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir,
const struct qstr *qstr,
initxattrs initxattrs, void *fs_data);
int security_old_inode_init_security(struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir,
- const struct qstr *qstr, char **name,
+ const struct qstr *qstr, const char **name,
void **value, size_t *len);
int security_inode_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode);
int security_inode_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir,
@@ -2094,8 +2094,8 @@ static inline int security_inode_init_security(struct inode *inode,
static inline int security_old_inode_init_security(struct inode *inode,
struct inode *dir,
const struct qstr *qstr,
- char **name, void **value,
- size_t *len)
+ const char **name,
+ void **value, size_t *len)
{
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}