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/include/linux/compat.h b/include/linux/compat.h
index 168f7da..9ddc878 100644
--- a/include/linux/compat.h
+++ b/include/linux/compat.h
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@
const compat_sigset_t __user *sigmask,
compat_size_t sigsetsize);
-asmlinkage long compat_sys_utimensat(unsigned int dfd, char __user *filename,
+asmlinkage long compat_sys_utimensat(unsigned int dfd, const char __user *filename,
struct compat_timespec __user *t, int flags);
asmlinkage long compat_sys_signalfd(int ufd,
@@ -348,9 +348,9 @@
const int __user *nodes,
int __user *status,
int flags);
-asmlinkage long compat_sys_futimesat(unsigned int dfd, char __user *filename,
+asmlinkage long compat_sys_futimesat(unsigned int dfd, const char __user *filename,
struct compat_timeval __user *t);
-asmlinkage long compat_sys_newfstatat(unsigned int dfd, char __user * filename,
+asmlinkage long compat_sys_newfstatat(unsigned int dfd, const char __user * filename,
struct compat_stat __user *statbuf,
int flag);
asmlinkage long compat_sys_openat(unsigned int dfd, const char __user *filename,