5.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Christian Göttsche cgzones@googlemail.com
commit 452f4b31e3f70a52b97890888eeb9eaa9a87139a upstream.
The name member of the struct trace_event_call is assigned with generated string literals; declare them pointer to read-only.
Reported by clang:
security/landlock/syscalls.c:179:1: warning: initializing 'char *' with an expression of type 'const char[34]' discards qualifiers [-Wincompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers] 179 | SYSCALL_DEFINE3(landlock_create_ruleset, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 180 | const struct landlock_ruleset_attr __user *const, attr, | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 181 | const size_t, size, const __u32, flags) | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ./include/linux/syscalls.h:226:36: note: expanded from macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINE3' 226 | #define SYSCALL_DEFINE3(name, ...) SYSCALL_DEFINEx(3, _##name, __VA_ARGS__) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ./include/linux/syscalls.h:234:2: note: expanded from macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINEx' 234 | SYSCALL_METADATA(sname, x, __VA_ARGS__) \ | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ./include/linux/syscalls.h:184:2: note: expanded from macro 'SYSCALL_METADATA' 184 | SYSCALL_TRACE_ENTER_EVENT(sname); \ | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ./include/linux/syscalls.h:151:30: note: expanded from macro 'SYSCALL_TRACE_ENTER_EVENT' 151 | .name = "sys_enter"#sname, \ | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Cc: Mickaël Salaün mic@digikod.net Cc: Günther Noack gnoack@google.com Cc: Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org Cc: Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com Cc: Bill Wendling morbo@google.com Cc: Justin Stitt justinstitt@google.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241125105028.42807-1-cgoettsche@seltendoof.de Fixes: b77e38aa240c3 ("tracing: add event trace infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche cgzones@googlemail.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- include/linux/trace_events.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/trace_events.h +++ b/include/linux/trace_events.h @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ struct trace_event_call { struct list_head list; struct trace_event_class *class; union { - char *name; + const char *name; /* Set TRACE_EVENT_FL_TRACEPOINT flag when using "tp" */ struct tracepoint *tp; };