RDMA, core and ULPs: Declare ib_post_send() and ib_post_recv() arguments const

Since neither ib_post_send() nor ib_post_recv() modify the data structure
their second argument points at, declare that argument const. This change
makes it necessary to declare the 'bad_wr' argument const too and also to
modify all ULPs that call ib_post_send(), ib_post_recv() or
ib_post_srq_recv(). This patch does not change any functionality but makes
it possible for the compiler to verify whether the
ib_post_(send|recv|srq_recv) really do not modify the posted work request.

To make this possible, only one cast had to be introduce that casts away
constness, namely in rpcrdma_post_recvs(). The only way I can think of to
avoid that cast is to introduce an additional loop in that function or to
change the data type of bad_wr from struct ib_recv_wr ** into int
(an index that refers to an element in the work request list). However,
both approaches would require even more extensive changes than this
patch.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
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Bart Van Assche 2018-07-18 09:25:32 -07:00 • committed by Jason Gunthorpe
commit d34ac5cd3a
43 changed files with 257 additions and 241 deletions

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@ -517,7 +517,8 @@ frwr_op_reminv(struct rpcrdma_rep *rep, struct list_head *mrs)
static void
frwr_op_unmap_sync(struct rpcrdma_xprt *r_xprt, struct list_head *mrs)
{
struct ib_send_wr *first, **prev, *last, *bad_wr;
struct ib_send_wr *first, **prev, *last;
const struct ib_send_wr *bad_wr;
struct rpcrdma_ia *ia = &r_xprt->rx_ia;
struct rpcrdma_frwr *frwr;
struct rpcrdma_mr *mr;

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@ -307,7 +307,8 @@ static int svc_rdma_post_chunk_ctxt(struct svc_rdma_chunk_ctxt *cc)
{
struct svcxprt_rdma *rdma = cc->cc_rdma;
struct svc_xprt *xprt = &rdma->sc_xprt;
struct ib_send_wr *first_wr, *bad_wr;
struct ib_send_wr *first_wr;
const struct ib_send_wr *bad_wr;
struct list_head *tmp;
struct ib_cqe *cqe;
int ret;

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@ -1559,7 +1559,8 @@ rpcrdma_post_recvs(struct rpcrdma_xprt *r_xprt, bool temp)
if (!count)
return;
rc = ib_post_recv(r_xprt->rx_ia.ri_id->qp, wr, &bad_wr);
rc = ib_post_recv(r_xprt->rx_ia.ri_id->qp, wr,
(const struct ib_recv_wr **)&bad_wr);
if (rc) {
for (wr = bad_wr; wr; wr = wr->next) {
struct rpcrdma_rep *rep;