diff --git a/cpp/src/copying/contiguous_split.cu b/cpp/src/copying/contiguous_split.cu
index 779a6a74f1d..a9194ceea93 100644
--- a/cpp/src/copying/contiguous_split.cu
+++ b/cpp/src/copying/contiguous_split.cu
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ struct dst_buf_info {
  */
 template <int block_size>
 __device__ void copy_buffer(uint8_t* __restrict__ dst,
-                            uint8_t* __restrict__ src,
+                            uint8_t const* __restrict__ src,
                             int t,
                             std::size_t num_elements,
                             std::size_t element_size,
@@ -193,11 +193,12 @@ __device__ void copy_buffer(uint8_t* __restrict__ dst,
     // and will never both be true at the same time.
     if (value_shift || bit_shift) {
       std::size_t idx = (num_bytes - remainder) / 4;
-      uint32_t v      = remainder > 0 ? (reinterpret_cast<uint32_t*>(src)[idx] - value_shift) : 0;
+      uint32_t v = remainder > 0 ? (reinterpret_cast<uint32_t const*>(src)[idx] - value_shift) : 0;
       while (remainder) {
-        uint32_t const next =
-          remainder > 0 ? (reinterpret_cast<uint32_t*>(src)[idx + 1] - value_shift) : 0;
-        uint32_t const val = (v >> bit_shift) | (next << (32 - bit_shift));
+        uint32_t const next = bit_shift > 0 || remainder > 4
+                                ? (reinterpret_cast<uint32_t const*>(src)[idx + 1] - value_shift)
+                                : 0;
+        uint32_t const val  = (v >> bit_shift) | (next << (32 - bit_shift));
         if (valid_count) { thread_valid_count += __popc(val); }
         reinterpret_cast<uint32_t*>(dst)[idx] = val;
         v                                     = next;
@@ -207,7 +208,7 @@ __device__ void copy_buffer(uint8_t* __restrict__ dst,
     } else {
       while (remainder) {
         std::size_t const idx = num_bytes - remainder--;
-        uint32_t const val    = reinterpret_cast<uint8_t*>(src)[idx];
+        uint32_t const val    = reinterpret_cast<uint8_t const*>(src)[idx];
         if (valid_count) { thread_valid_count += __popc(val); }
         reinterpret_cast<uint8_t*>(dst)[idx] = val;
       }
@@ -255,7 +256,7 @@ __device__ void copy_buffer(uint8_t* __restrict__ dst,
  */
 template <int block_size>
 __global__ void copy_partition(int num_src_bufs,
-                               uint8_t** src_bufs,
+                               uint8_t const** src_bufs,
                                uint8_t** dst_bufs,
                                dst_buf_info* buf_info)
 {
@@ -349,13 +350,13 @@ OutputIter setup_src_buf_data(InputIter begin, InputIter end, OutputIter out_buf
 {
   std::for_each(begin, end, [&out_buf](column_view const& col) {
     if (col.nullable()) {
-      *out_buf = reinterpret_cast<uint8_t*>(const_cast<bitmask_type*>(col.null_mask()));
+      *out_buf = reinterpret_cast<uint8_t const*>(col.null_mask());
       out_buf++;
     }
     // NOTE: we're always returning the base pointer here.  column-level offset is accounted
     // for later. Also, for some column types (string, list, struct) this pointer will be null
     // because there is no associated data with the root column.
-    *out_buf = const_cast<uint8_t*>(col.head<uint8_t>());
+    *out_buf = col.head<uint8_t>();
     out_buf++;
 
     out_buf = setup_src_buf_data(col.child_begin(), col.child_end(), out_buf);
@@ -1020,14 +1021,14 @@ std::vector<packed_table> contiguous_split(cudf::table_view const& input,
     cudf::util::round_up_safe(num_partitions * sizeof(uint8_t*), split_align);
   // host-side
   std::vector<uint8_t> h_src_and_dst_buffers(src_bufs_size + dst_bufs_size);
-  uint8_t** h_src_bufs = reinterpret_cast<uint8_t**>(h_src_and_dst_buffers.data());
+  uint8_t const** h_src_bufs = reinterpret_cast<uint8_t const**>(h_src_and_dst_buffers.data());
   uint8_t** h_dst_bufs = reinterpret_cast<uint8_t**>(h_src_and_dst_buffers.data() + src_bufs_size);
   // device-side
   rmm::device_buffer d_src_and_dst_buffers(src_bufs_size + dst_bufs_size + offset_stack_size,
                                            stream,
                                            rmm::mr::get_current_device_resource());
-  uint8_t** d_src_bufs = reinterpret_cast<uint8_t**>(d_src_and_dst_buffers.data());
-  uint8_t** d_dst_bufs = reinterpret_cast<uint8_t**>(
+  uint8_t const** d_src_bufs = reinterpret_cast<uint8_t const**>(d_src_and_dst_buffers.data());
+  uint8_t** d_dst_bufs       = reinterpret_cast<uint8_t**>(
     reinterpret_cast<uint8_t*>(d_src_and_dst_buffers.data()) + src_bufs_size);
 
   // setup src buffers