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lib: crc8: pointer to data block should be const

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crc8() does not change the data passed to it, so the pointer argument
should be declared const.  This avoids callers that receive const data
having to cast it to a non-const pointer to call crc8().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210329122409.3291-1-rf@opensource.cirrus.com
Signed-off-by: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@opensource.cirrus.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Richard Fitzgerald 2021-05-06 18:03:37 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent ade29d4fdb
commit e18baa7cc3
2 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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include/linux/crc8.h
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@ -96,6 +96,6 @@ void crc8_populate_msb(u8 table[CRC8_TABLE_SIZE], u8 polynomial);
* Williams, Ross N., ross<at>ross.net
* (see URL http://www.ross.net/crc/download/crc_v3.txt).
*/
u8 crc8(const u8 table[CRC8_TABLE_SIZE], u8 *pdata, size_t nbytes, u8 crc);
u8 crc8(const u8 table[CRC8_TABLE_SIZE], const u8 *pdata, size_t nbytes, u8 crc);
#endif /* __CRC8_H_ */

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lib/crc8.c
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@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(crc8_populate_lsb);
* @nbytes: number of bytes in data buffer.
* @crc: previous returned crc8 value.
*/
u8 crc8(const u8 table[CRC8_TABLE_SIZE], u8 *pdata, size_t nbytes, u8 crc)
u8 crc8(const u8 table[CRC8_TABLE_SIZE], const u8 *pdata, size_t nbytes, u8 crc)
{
/* loop over the buffer data */
while (nbytes-- > 0)