2 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/parser.h b/include/linux/parser.h
index fa3332861a09..86676f600992 100644
--- a/include/linux/parser.h
+++ b/include/linux/parser.h
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@
 /* associates an integer enumerator with a pattern string. */
 struct match_token {
         int token;
-        char *pattern;
+        const char *pattern;
 };
 
-typedef struct match_token match_table_t[];
+typedef const struct match_token match_table_t[];
 
 /* Maximum number of arguments that match_token will find in a pattern */
 enum {MAX_OPT_ARGS = 3};
@@ -29,5 +29,5 @@ int match_token(char *, match_table_t table, substring_t args[]);
 int match_int(substring_t *, int *result);
 int match_octal(substring_t *, int *result);
 int match_hex(substring_t *, int *result);
-void match_strcpy(char *, substring_t *);
-char *match_strdup(substring_t *);
+void match_strcpy(char *, const substring_t *);
+char *match_strdup(const substring_t *);
diff --git a/lib/parser.c b/lib/parser.c
index 7ad2a48abc5e..703c8c13b346 100644
--- a/lib/parser.c
+++ b/lib/parser.c
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
  * match extremely simple token=arg style patterns. If the pattern is found,
  * the location(s) of the arguments will be returned in the @args array.
  */
-static int match_one(char *s, char *p, substring_t args[])
+static int match_one(char *s, const char *p, substring_t args[])
 {
         char *meta;
         int argc = 0;
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ static int match_one(char *s, char *p, substring_t args[])
                 p = meta + 1;
 
                 if (isdigit(*p))
-                        len = simple_strtoul(p, &p, 10);
+                        len = simple_strtoul(p, (char **) &p, 10);
                 else if (*p == '%') {
                         if (*s++ != '%')
                                 return 0;
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ static int match_one(char *s, char *p, substring_t args[])
  */
 int match_token(char *s, match_table_t table, substring_t args[])
 {
-        struct match_token *p;
+        const struct match_token *p;
 
         for (p = table; !match_one(s, p->pattern, args) ; p++)
                 ;
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ int match_hex(substring_t *s, int *result)
  * &substring_t @s to the c-style string @to. Caller guarantees that @to is
  * large enough to hold the characters of @s.
  */
-void match_strcpy(char *to, substring_t *s)
+void match_strcpy(char *to, const substring_t *s)
 {
         memcpy(to, s->from, s->to - s->from);
         to[s->to - s->from] = '\0';
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ void match_strcpy(char *to, substring_t *s)
  * the &substring_t @s. The caller is responsible for freeing the returned
  * string with kfree().
  */
-char *match_strdup(substring_t *s)
+char *match_strdup(const substring_t *s)
 {
         char *p = kmalloc(s->to - s->from + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
         if (p)