Revert "ipv6: constify inet6_protocol structures"

This reverts commit 3a3a4e3054137c5ff5d4d306ec834f6d25d7f95b.

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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
index 33865d67bcb4030d3150732560fe0f5f1507073a..67ff2aaf5dcbbe9f64482e2a251f061be8007770 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ static void ip6gre_fb_tunnel_init(struct net_device *dev)
 }
 
 
-static const struct inet6_protocol ip6gre_protocol = {
+static struct inet6_protocol ip6gre_protocol __read_mostly = {
        .handler     = gre_rcv,
        .err_handler = ip6gre_err,
        .flags       = INET6_PROTO_NOPOLICY|INET6_PROTO_FINAL,

diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index 39ee8e7fc4bd21d128d36715ac81244f756ef036..ced5dcf3746599d8f9e2414ae249c6e929ff4687 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -1944,7 +1944,7 @@ struct proto tcpv6_prot = {
        .diag_destroy           = tcp_abort,
 };
 
-static const struct inet6_protocol tcpv6_protocol = {
+static struct inet6_protocol tcpv6_protocol = {
        .early_demux    =       tcp_v6_early_demux,
        .early_demux_handler =  tcp_v6_early_demux,
        .handler        =       tcp_v6_rcv,

diff --git a/net/ipv6/udp.c b/net/ipv6/udp.c
index 5f8b8d766c63be3cacfec2cb8087d529d29464f9..4a3e65626e8baddf5d7d1c246e6e5fded2b08b8a 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv6/udp.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/udp.c
@@ -1448,7 +1448,7 @@ int compat_udpv6_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
 }
 #endif
 
-static const struct inet6_protocol udpv6_protocol = {
+static struct inet6_protocol udpv6_protocol = {
        .early_demux    =       udp_v6_early_demux,
        .early_demux_handler =  udp_v6_early_demux,
        .handler        =       udpv6_rcv,