From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] mark address_space_operations const Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 22:56:36 -0700 Message-ID: <20060509055636.GA25575@kroah.com> References: <20060503131836.GA6991@lst.de> <20060509053039.GA12805@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, suparna@in.ibm.com, maneesh@in.ibm.com, jkenisto@us.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:51916 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751410AbWEIF6T (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 01:58:19 -0400 To: Prasanna S Panchamukhi Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060509053039.GA12805@in.ibm.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:00:39AM +0530, Prasanna S Panchamukhi wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:18:36PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Same as with already do with the file operations: > > keep them in .rodata and prevents people from doing runtime patching. > > I understand that making file operations .rodata was > to prevent binary driver authors overriding individual > file_operations members at runtime. > > This patch prevents even GPL code from overriding address_space > operations. There might be in kernel users who want to override > address_space operations. Are there any existing in-kernel users who wish to override these operations? thanks, greg k-h