From 5a1bc025e59e63d96f73320178fb9d98fcd1c153 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ken Steele <ken@tilera.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:14:49 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Mark pflow as a constant pointer.

Address review comment from Victor that the pflow pointer is constant, so
it can be marked as such.
---
 src/detect.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/detect.c b/src/detect.c
index fd09784dac..c0dc76b599 100644
--- a/src/detect.c
+++ b/src/detect.c
@@ -1122,8 +1122,10 @@ int SigMatchSignatures(ThreadVars *th_v, DetectEngineCtx *de_ctx, DetectEngineTh
         SCReturnInt(0);
     }
 
-    /* Load the Packet's flow early, even though it might not be needed */
-    Flow *pflow = p->flow;
+    /* Load the Packet's flow early, even though it might not be needed.
+     * Mark as a constant pointer, although the flow can change.
+     */
+    Flow * const pflow = p->flow;
 
     /* grab the protocol state we will detect on */
     if (p->flags & PKT_HAS_FLOW) {