firmware: arm_ffa: Make ffa_bus_type const

Now that the driver core can properly handle constant struct bus_type,
move the ffa_bus_type variable to be a constant structure as well,
placing it into read-only memory which can not be modified at runtime.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <ricardo@marliere.net>
Reviewed-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240211-bus_cleanup-firmware2-v1-1-1851c92c7be7@marliere.net
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/bus.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/bus.c
index 1c7940ba55393f62050fde61d8f4fd71dce73233..2f557e90f2ebe57839f909e3910037f10b84a323 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/bus.c
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static struct attribute *ffa_device_attributes_attrs[] = {
 };
 ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(ffa_device_attributes);
 
-struct bus_type ffa_bus_type = {
+const struct bus_type ffa_bus_type = {
        .name           = "arm_ffa",
        .match          = ffa_device_match,
        .probe          = ffa_device_probe,

diff --git a/include/linux/arm_ffa.h b/include/linux/arm_ffa.h
index 3d0fde57ba90eb7b6bf6a295181f06ab73cfb03b..c906f666ff5d22007d1732bb0706d891ded27551 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/arm_ffa.h
+++ b/include/linux/arm_ffa.h
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ bool ffa_device_is_valid(struct ffa_device *ffa_dev) { return false; }
 #define module_ffa_driver(__ffa_driver)        \
        module_driver(__ffa_driver, ffa_register, ffa_unregister)
 
-extern struct bus_type ffa_bus_type;
+extern const struct bus_type ffa_bus_type;
 
 /* FFA transport related */
 struct ffa_partition_info {