From c7887325230aec47d47a32562a6e26014a0fafca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:26:22 +0100 Subject: 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 Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/sys_ppc32.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/powerpc') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c index e78a5add7f15..feacfb789686 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c @@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@ int sys_execve(unsigned long a0, unsigned long a1, unsigned long a2, int error; char *filename; - filename = getname((char __user *) a0); + filename = getname((const char __user *) a0); error = PTR_ERR(filename); if (IS_ERR(filename)) goto out; diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/sys_ppc32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/sys_ppc32.c index 19471a1cef1a..20fd701a686a 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/sys_ppc32.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/sys_ppc32.c @@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ compat_ssize_t compat_sys_pread64(unsigned int fd, char __user *ubuf, compat_siz return sys_pread64(fd, ubuf, count, ((loff_t)poshi << 32) | poslo); } -compat_ssize_t compat_sys_pwrite64(unsigned int fd, char __user *ubuf, compat_size_t count, +compat_ssize_t compat_sys_pwrite64(unsigned int fd, const char __user *ubuf, compat_size_t count, u32 reg6, u32 poshi, u32 poslo) { return sys_pwrite64(fd, ubuf, count, ((loff_t)poshi << 32) | poslo); -- cgit v1.2.3