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, 18 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/fs/stat.c b/fs/stat.c
index c4ecd52c5737..12e90e213900 100644
--- a/fs/stat.c
+++ b/fs/stat.c
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ int vfs_fstat(unsigned int fd, struct kstat *stat)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_fstat);
 
-int vfs_fstatat(int dfd, char __user *filename, struct kstat *stat, int flag)
+int vfs_fstatat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, struct kstat *stat,
+                int flag)
 {
         struct path path;
         int error = -EINVAL;
@@ -91,13 +92,13 @@ out:
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_fstatat);
 
-int vfs_stat(char __user *name, struct kstat *stat)
+int vfs_stat(const char __user *name, struct kstat *stat)
 {
         return vfs_fstatat(AT_FDCWD, name, stat, 0);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_stat);
 
-int vfs_lstat(char __user *name, struct kstat *stat)
+int vfs_lstat(const char __user *name, struct kstat *stat)
 {
         return vfs_fstatat(AT_FDCWD, name, stat, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW);
 }
@@ -147,7 +148,8 @@ static int cp_old_stat(struct kstat *stat, struct __old_kernel_stat __user * sta
         return copy_to_user(statbuf,&tmp,sizeof(tmp)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
 }
 
-SYSCALL_DEFINE2(stat, char __user *, filename, struct __old_kernel_stat __user *, statbuf)
+SYSCALL_DEFINE2(stat, const char __user *, filename,
+                struct __old_kernel_stat __user *, statbuf)
 {
         struct kstat stat;
         int error;
@@ -159,7 +161,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(stat, char __user *, filename, struct __old_kernel_stat __user *
         return cp_old_stat(&stat, statbuf);
 }
 
-SYSCALL_DEFINE2(lstat, char __user *, filename, struct __old_kernel_stat __user *, statbuf)
+SYSCALL_DEFINE2(lstat, const char __user *, filename,
+                struct __old_kernel_stat __user *, statbuf)
 {
         struct kstat stat;
         int error;
@@ -234,7 +237,8 @@ static int cp_new_stat(struct kstat *stat, struct stat __user *statbuf)
         return copy_to_user(statbuf,&tmp,sizeof(tmp)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
 }
 
-SYSCALL_DEFINE2(newstat, char __user *, filename, struct stat __user *, statbuf)
+SYSCALL_DEFINE2(newstat, const char __user *, filename,
+                struct stat __user *, statbuf)
 {
         struct kstat stat;
         int error = vfs_stat(filename, &stat);
@@ -244,7 +248,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(newstat, char __user *, filename, struct stat __user *, statbuf)
         return cp_new_stat(&stat, statbuf);
 }
 
-SYSCALL_DEFINE2(newlstat, char __user *, filename, struct stat __user *, statbuf)
+SYSCALL_DEFINE2(newlstat, const char __user *, filename,
+                struct stat __user *, statbuf)
 {
         struct kstat stat;
         int error;
@@ -257,7 +262,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(newlstat, char __user *, filename, struct stat __user *, statbuf
 }
 
 #if !defined(__ARCH_WANT_STAT64) || defined(__ARCH_WANT_SYS_NEWFSTATAT)
-SYSCALL_DEFINE4(newfstatat, int, dfd, char __user *, filename,
+SYSCALL_DEFINE4(newfstatat, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename,
                 struct stat __user *, statbuf, int, flag)
 {
         struct kstat stat;
@@ -355,7 +360,8 @@ static long cp_new_stat64(struct kstat *stat, struct stat64 __user *statbuf)
         return copy_to_user(statbuf,&tmp,sizeof(tmp)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
 }
 
-SYSCALL_DEFINE2(stat64, char __user *, filename, struct stat64 __user *, statbuf)
+SYSCALL_DEFINE2(stat64, const char __user *, filename,
+                struct stat64 __user *, statbuf)
 {
         struct kstat stat;
         int error = vfs_stat(filename, &stat);
@@ -366,7 +372,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(stat64, char __user *, filename, struct stat64 __user *, statbuf
         return error;
 }
 
-SYSCALL_DEFINE2(lstat64, char __user *, filename, struct stat64 __user *, statbuf)
+SYSCALL_DEFINE2(lstat64, const char __user *, filename,
+                struct stat64 __user *, statbuf)
 {
         struct kstat stat;
         int error = vfs_lstat(filename, &stat);
@@ -388,7 +395,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fstat64, unsigned long, fd, struct stat64 __user *, statbuf)
         return error;
 }
 
-SYSCALL_DEFINE4(fstatat64, int, dfd, char __user *, filename,
+SYSCALL_DEFINE4(fstatat64, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename,
                 struct stat64 __user *, statbuf, int, flag)
 {
         struct kstat stat;