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/mips/kernel/syscall.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/mips') diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c b/arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c index 58bab2ef257f..bddce0bca195 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ asmlinkage int sys_execve(nabi_no_regargs struct pt_regs regs) int error; char * filename; - filename = getname((char __user *) (long)regs.regs[4]); + filename = getname((const char __user *) (long)regs.regs[4]); error = PTR_ERR(filename); if (IS_ERR(filename)) goto out; -- cgit v1.2.3