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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] Revert "ipv4: make net_protocol const"
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 10:47:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55ee348e-3193-f384-b4a9-3f773052a154@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOH+1jF3G+Yo30Tk=cgnAPfD8UNe+FkkLjC1uGUd9eeG-ce5KA@mail.gmail.com>

On 8/29/17 12:46 AM, Bhumika Goyal wrote:
> I am compile testing them. In this case I did:  make
> net/ipv4/af_inet.o and it compiled. Is this error because of
> typecasting net_protocol inside inet_add_protocol function?

Compile testing is not sufficient. Marking data structures read-only
leaves potential land mines for others to trip over at run-time.

You are making these changes based on a code analysis. Extend the
analysis to elements of the structure. In this case early_demux is the
first element. There are only 9 references to early_demux and cscope
very quickly tells you it can be changed:

7 sysctl_net_ipv4.c proc_configure_early_demux  312 ipprot->early_demux
= enabled ? ipprot->early_demux_handler :
8 sysctl_net_ipv4.c proc_configure_early_demux  318 ip6prot->early_demux
= enabled ? ip6prot->early_demux_handler :

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-29 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-28 20:23 [PATCH net-next] Revert "ipv4: make net_protocol const" David Ahern
2017-08-28 21:01 ` David Miller
2017-08-28 21:03   ` David Ahern
2017-08-28 21:30     ` David Miller
2017-08-28 21:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-08-29  6:46 ` Bhumika Goyal
2017-08-29 15:14   ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-08-29 16:47   ` David Ahern [this message]

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