The attributes of net devices are immutable. Ideally, attribute groups would contain const attributes but there are too many places that do modifications of list during startup (in other code) to allow that.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthem...@microsoft.com> --- net/core/net-sysfs.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c index 2de441692f28..76ec74d4a65b 100644 --- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c +++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c @@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ static ssize_t phys_switch_id_show(struct device *dev, } static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(phys_switch_id); -static struct attribute *net_class_attrs[] = { +static struct attribute *net_class_attrs[] __ro_after_init = { &dev_attr_netdev_group.attr, &dev_attr_type.attr, &dev_attr_dev_id.attr, @@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ NETSTAT_ENTRY(rx_compressed); NETSTAT_ENTRY(tx_compressed); NETSTAT_ENTRY(rx_nohandler); -static struct attribute *netstat_attrs[] = { +static struct attribute *netstat_attrs[] __ro_after_init = { &dev_attr_rx_packets.attr, &dev_attr_tx_packets.attr, &dev_attr_rx_bytes.attr, -- 2.11.0