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, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 7a0625e26a39..5f0ca2fbb2a0 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2320,10 +2320,10 @@ void inode_set_bytes(struct inode *inode, loff_t bytes);
 
 extern int vfs_readdir(struct file *, filldir_t, void *);
 
-extern int vfs_stat(char __user *, struct kstat *);
-extern int vfs_lstat(char __user *, struct kstat *);
+extern int vfs_stat(const char __user *, struct kstat *);
+extern int vfs_lstat(const char __user *, struct kstat *);
 extern int vfs_fstat(unsigned int, struct kstat *);
-extern int vfs_fstatat(int , char __user *, struct kstat *, int);
+extern int vfs_fstatat(int , const char __user *, struct kstat *, int);
 
 extern int do_vfs_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int fd, unsigned int cmd,
                     unsigned long arg);