param: remove unnecessary writable charp

sysfs-writable charp arguments need to be locked against modification
(since the old ones may be kfreed underneath us).  String arguments
are much simpler, so use them for small strings (eg. IFNAMSIZ).

lkdtm only uses the parameters at module initialization time, so there's
not much point making them writable.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c
index 49ab9fa9ffa..ed7457bc24e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static struct pci_device_id rtl8180_pci_id_tbl[] __devinitdata = {
 };
 
 
-static char *ifname = "wlan%d";
+static char ifname[IFNAMSIZ] = "wlan%d";
 static int hwseqnum = 0;
 static int hwwep = 0;
 static int channels = 0x3fff;
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Andrea Merello <andreamrl@tiscali.it>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Linux driver for Realtek RTL8180 / RTL8185 WiFi cards");
 
 
-module_param(ifname, charp, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR);
+module_param_string(ifname, ifname, sizeof(ifname), S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR);
 module_param(hwseqnum, int, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR);
 module_param(hwwep, int, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR);
 module_param(channels, int, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR);
@@ -3609,7 +3609,7 @@ static int __devinit rtl8180_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 
         if (dev_alloc_name(dev, ifname) < 0) {
                 DMESG("Oops: devname already taken! Trying wlan%%d...\n");
-                ifname = "wlan%d";
+                strcpy(ifname, "wlan%d");
                 dev_alloc_name(dev, ifname);
         }