Declare the file_operations structure ll_file_operations as const, as done elsewhere in the kernel, as there are no modifications to its fields. Problem found using checkpatch. Signed-off-by: Shraddha Barke <shraddha.6596(a)gmail.com&gt; --- Changes in v2: - Make the commit message more clearer. drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c index 369a722..dcd0c6d 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c @@ -3116,7 +3116,7 @@ int ll_inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask) } /* -o localflock - only provides locally consistent flock locks */ -const struct file_operations ll_file_operations = { +struct file_operations ll_file_operations = { .read_iter = ll_file_read_iter, .write_iter = ll_file_write_iter, .unlocked_ioctl = ll_file_ioctl, -- 2.1.0