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/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
index 88131c6..fb58150 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@
return error;
}
-SYSCALL_DEFINE3(osf_statfs, char __user *, pathname,
+SYSCALL_DEFINE3(osf_statfs, const char __user *, pathname,
struct osf_statfs __user *, buffer, unsigned long, bufsiz)
{
struct path path;
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@
return do_mount("", dirname, "proc", flags, NULL);
}
-SYSCALL_DEFINE4(osf_mount, unsigned long, typenr, char __user *, path,
+SYSCALL_DEFINE4(osf_mount, unsigned long, typenr, const char __user *, path,
int, flag, void __user *, data)
{
int retval;
@@ -932,7 +932,7 @@
}
-SYSCALL_DEFINE2(osf_utimes, char __user *, filename,
+SYSCALL_DEFINE2(osf_utimes, const char __user *, filename,
struct timeval32 __user *, tvs)
{
struct timespec tv[2];