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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2010-08-17 18:52:56 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-08-17 21:07:43 -0400
commitd7627467b7a8dd6944885290a03a07ceb28c10eb (patch)
treea18c83468418e878cfb2d44e4310d81b8db84ad7 /kernel/kmod.c
parentda5cabf80e2433131bf0ed8993abc0f7ea618c73 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kmod.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kmod.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 6e9b19667a8d..9cd0591c96a2 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -153,7 +153,9 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
153 goto fail; 153 goto fail;
154 } 154 }
155 155
156 retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path, sub_info->argv, sub_info->envp); 156 retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path,
157 (const char *const *)sub_info->argv,
158 (const char *const *)sub_info->envp);
157 159
158 /* Exec failed? */ 160 /* Exec failed? */
159fail: 161fail: