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/arm/kernel/sys_oabi-compat.c b/arch/arm/kernel/sys_oabi-compat.c
index 33ff678..4ad8da1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/sys_oabi-compat.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/sys_oabi-compat.c
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
return copy_to_user(statbuf,&tmp,sizeof(tmp)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
}
-asmlinkage long sys_oabi_stat64(char __user * filename,
+asmlinkage long sys_oabi_stat64(const char __user * filename,
struct oldabi_stat64 __user * statbuf)
{
struct kstat stat;
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@
return error;
}
-asmlinkage long sys_oabi_lstat64(char __user * filename,
+asmlinkage long sys_oabi_lstat64(const char __user * filename,
struct oldabi_stat64 __user * statbuf)
{
struct kstat stat;
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@
}
asmlinkage long sys_oabi_fstatat64(int dfd,
- char __user *filename,
+ const char __user *filename,
struct oldabi_stat64 __user *statbuf,
int flag)
{
