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>
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@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_fpu);
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/*
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* sys_execve() executes a new program.
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*/
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asmlinkage int sys_execve(char __user *name, char __user * __user *argv, char __user * __user *envp)
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asmlinkage int sys_execve(const char __user *name, char __user * __user *argv, char __user * __user *envp)
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{
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int error;
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char * filename;
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