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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2017-09-01 17:39:13 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2017-09-04 19:05:15 -0400
commitbdd1d2d3d251c65b74ac4493e08db18971c09240 (patch)
tree71df247eeb367203c59a26eed8a384398c2d8131 /arch
parentc41fbad015dabb0a40ecca50c3ff5658eb6471ff (diff)
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fs: fix kernel_read prototype
Use proper ssize_t and size_t types for the return value and count argument, move the offset last and make it an in/out argument like all other read/write helpers, and make the buf argument a void pointer to get rid of lots of casts in the callers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/mips/kernel/elf.c12
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c4
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/elf.c b/arch/mips/kernel/elf.c
index 5c429d70e17f..0828d6d963b7 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/elf.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/elf.c
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ int arch_elf_pt_proc(void *_ehdr, void *_phdr, struct file *elf,
bool elf32;
u32 flags;
int ret;
+ loff_t pos;
elf32 = ehdr->e32.e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS32;
flags = elf32 ? ehdr->e32.e_flags : ehdr->e64.e_flags;
@@ -108,21 +109,16 @@ int arch_elf_pt_proc(void *_ehdr, void *_phdr, struct file *elf,
if (phdr32->p_filesz < sizeof(abiflags))
return -EINVAL;
-
- ret = kernel_read(elf, phdr32->p_offset,
- (char *)&abiflags,
- sizeof(abiflags));
+ pos = phdr32->p_offset;
} else {
if (phdr64->p_type != PT_MIPS_ABIFLAGS)
return 0;
if (phdr64->p_filesz < sizeof(abiflags))
return -EINVAL;
-
- ret = kernel_read(elf, phdr64->p_offset,
- (char *)&abiflags,
- sizeof(abiflags));
+ pos = phdr64->p_offset;
}
+ ret = kernel_read(elf, &abiflags, sizeof(abiflags), &pos);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
if (ret != sizeof(abiflags))
diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c
index 8d0879f1d42c..8e02b30cf08e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c
+++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c
@@ -407,10 +407,10 @@ static int load_aout_library(struct file *file)
unsigned long bss, start_addr, len, error;
int retval;
struct exec ex;
-
+ loff_t pos = 0;
retval = -ENOEXEC;
- error = kernel_read(file, 0, (char *) &ex, sizeof(ex));
+ error = kernel_read(file, &ex, sizeof(ex), &pos);
if (error != sizeof(ex))
goto out;