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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

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;