Re: [PATCH 05/29] btrfs: move btrfs_xattr_handlers to .rodata

From: David Sterba
Date: Mon Oct 02 2023 - 07:44:39 EST


On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 01:28:58PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 02:00:09AM -0300, Wedson Almeida Filho wrote:
> > From: Wedson Almeida Filho <walmeida@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This makes it harder for accidental or malicious changes to
> > btrfs_xattr_handlers at runtime.
> >
> > Cc: Chris Mason <clm@xxxxxx>
> > Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-btrfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <walmeida@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> With slightly updated changelog added to misc-next, thanks.

Removed again. I did not notice first that this is part of a larger
series, please also CC the [PATCH 0/N] patch.

There's a warning:

fs/btrfs/super.c: In function ‘btrfs_fill_super’:
fs/btrfs/super.c:1107:21: warning: assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
1107 | sb->s_xattr = btrfs_xattr_handlers;
| ^

but the patch changing the type is present in the series.

Please update the changelog of btrfs patch with:

Add const specifier also to the pointed array members of
btrfs_xattr_handlers. This moves the whole structure to the .rodata
section which makes it harder for accidental or malicious changes to
btrfs_xattr_handlers at runtime.

or use it for others patches too.