From d7627467b7a8dd6944885290a03a07ceb28c10eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:52:56 +0100
Subject: Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer

Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:

arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to.  This is
because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
copy_strings_kernel().  A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().

do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
const should be fine.

Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.

This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 arch/alpha/kernel/process.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'arch/alpha/kernel')

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
index 88e608aebc8..842dba308ea 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
@@ -387,8 +387,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_elf_task_fp);
  * sys_execve() executes a new program.
  */
 asmlinkage int
-do_sys_execve(const char __user *ufilename, char __user * __user *argv,
-	      char __user * __user *envp, struct pt_regs *regs)
+do_sys_execve(const char __user *ufilename,
+	      const char __user *const __user *argv,
+	      const char __user *const __user *envp, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	int error;
 	char *filename;
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