[PATCH] security: declare member holding string literal const

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Thu Feb 17 22:27:12 UTC 2022


On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 9:19 AM Christian Göttsche
<cgzones at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> The struct security_hook_list member lsm is assigned in
> security_add_hooks() with string literals passed from the individual
> security modules.  Declare the function parameter and the struct member
> const to signal their immutability.
>
> Reported by Clang [-Wwrite-strings]:
>
>     security/selinux/hooks.c:7388:63: error: passing 'const char [8]' to parameter of type 'char *' discards qualifiers [-Werror,-Wincompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers]
>             security_add_hooks(selinux_hooks, ARRAY_SIZE(selinux_hooks), selinux);
>                                                                          ^~~~~~~~~
>     ./include/linux/lsm_hooks.h:1629:11: note: passing argument to parameter 'lsm' here
>                                     char *lsm);
>                                           ^
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones at googlemail.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/lsm_hooks.h | 4 ++--
>  security/security.c       | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Thanks Christian.

Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>

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