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test_list_sort: fix up const mismatch
authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:36:52 +0000 (13:36 +0100)
committerShuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 5 Jan 2026 22:32:03 +0000 (15:32 -0700)
In the internal cmp function, a const pointer is cast out to a non-const
pointer by using container_of().  This is probably not what is intended
at all, so fix up the const marking to properly preserve what is really
happening (i.e. the const should flow through the container_of() call)

Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2025121751-backtrack-manifesto-7c57@gregkh/#r
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
lib/tests/test_list_sort.c

index 30879abc8a427c546010f1778f65c2c16efbba34..28158557b1641f9e6ccdedffdd1f83696ed0a404 100644 (file)
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ struct debug_el {
        unsigned int serial;
 };
 
-static void check(struct kunit *test, struct debug_el *ela, struct debug_el *elb)
+static void check(struct kunit *test, const struct debug_el *ela, const struct debug_el *elb)
 {
        struct debug_el **elts = test->priv;
 
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static void check(struct kunit *test, struct debug_el *ela, struct debug_el *elb
 /* `priv` is the test pointer so check() can fail the test if the list is invalid. */
 static int cmp(void *priv, const struct list_head *a, const struct list_head *b)
 {
-       struct debug_el *ela, *elb;
+       const struct debug_el *ela, *elb;
 
        ela = container_of(a, struct debug_el, list);
        elb = container_of(b, struct debug_el, list);