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[2/2] Revert "l2tp: constify inet6_protocol structures"

Message ID 1501604849-19443-3-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Julia Lawall Aug. 1, 2017, 4:27 p.m. UTC 
This reverts commit d04916a48ad4a3db892b664fa9c3a2a693c378ad.

inet6_add_protocol and inet6_del_protocol include casts that remove the
effect of the const annotation on their parameter, leading to possible
runtime crashes.

Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>

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 net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c b/net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c
index d2efcd9..88b397c 100644
--- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c
+++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c
@@ -788,7 +788,7 @@  static int l2tp_ip6_recvmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len,
 	.ops		= &l2tp_ip6_ops,
 };
 
-static const struct inet6_protocol l2tp_ip6_protocol = {
+static struct inet6_protocol l2tp_ip6_protocol __read_mostly = {
 	.handler	= l2tp_ip6_recv,
 };