Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being const
Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but
aren't. The list includes:
(*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes
syscalls and some mount syscalls.
(*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above.
(*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/arch/parisc/hpux/fs.c b/arch/parisc/hpux/fs.c
index 6935123..1444875 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/hpux/fs.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/hpux/fs.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
int error;
char *filename;
- filename = getname((char __user *) regs->gr[26]);
+ filename = getname((const char __user *) regs->gr[26]);
error = PTR_ERR(filename);
if (IS_ERR(filename))
goto out;
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@
return copy_to_user(statbuf,&tmp,sizeof(tmp)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
}
-long hpux_stat64(char __user *filename, struct hpux_stat64 __user *statbuf)
+long hpux_stat64(const char __user *filename, struct hpux_stat64 __user *statbuf)
{
struct kstat stat;
int error = vfs_stat(filename, &stat);
@@ -191,7 +191,8 @@
return error;
}
-long hpux_lstat64(char __user *filename, struct hpux_stat64 __user *statbuf)
+long hpux_lstat64(const char __user *filename,
+ struct hpux_stat64 __user *statbuf)
{
struct kstat stat;
int error = vfs_lstat(filename, &stat);