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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2010-08-11 11:26:22 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-08-13 16:53:13 -0700
commitc7887325230aec47d47a32562a6e26014a0fafca (patch)
tree10535943dace59ddb01d3440aa582bc4640e8016 /arch/x86/kernel/process.c
parentb84ae4a1401a731ef5fee987c0cb08743838dda7 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index d401f1d2d06..64ecaf0af9a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread);
/*
* sys_execve() executes a new program.
*/
-long sys_execve(char __user *name, char __user * __user *argv,
+long sys_execve(const char __user *name, char __user * __user *argv,
char __user * __user *envp, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
long error;