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So one of the constification patches unearthed a type casting fragility
of the underlying code:
276c87054751 ("x86/platform/intel-mid: Make 'bt_sfi_data' const")
converted the struct to be const while it is also used as a temporary
container for important data that is used to fill 'parent' and 'name'
fields in struct platform_device_info.
The compiler doesn't notice this due to an explicit type cast that loses
the const - which fragility will be fixed separately.
This type cast turned a seemingly trivial const propagation patch into a
hard to debug data corruptor and crasher bug.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@gmail.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: julia.lawall@lip6.fr
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171228122523.21802-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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