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[4.14,094/115] x86/platform/intel-mid: Revert "Make bt_sfi_data const"

Message ID 20180302084507.647317868@linuxfoundation.org (mailing list archive)
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Greg Kroah-Hartman March 2, 2018, 8:51 a.m. UTC 
4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>


[ Upstream commit 9d0513d82f1a8fe17b41f113ac5922fa57dbaf5c ]

So one of the constification patches unearthed a type casting fragility
of the underlying code:

  276c87054751 ("x86/platform/intel-mid: Make 'bt_sfi_data' const")

converted the struct to be const while it is also used as a temporary
container for important data that is used to fill 'parent' and 'name'
fields in struct platform_device_info.

The compiler doesn't notice this due to an explicit type cast that loses
the const - which fragility will be fixed separately.

This type cast turned a seemingly trivial const propagation patch into a
hard to debug data corruptor and crasher bug.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@gmail.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: julia.lawall@lip6.fr
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171228122523.21802-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_bt.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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--- a/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_bt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_bt.c
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@  static int __init tng_bt_sfi_setup(struc
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static const struct bt_sfi_data tng_bt_sfi_data __initdata = {
+static struct bt_sfi_data tng_bt_sfi_data __initdata = {
 	.setup	= tng_bt_sfi_setup,
 };