From c7887325230aec47d47a32562a6e26014a0fafca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:26:22 +0100 Subject: 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 Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S index c5ea5cdbe7b3..17be5ec7cbba 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S @@ -1185,13 +1185,13 @@ END(kernel_thread_helper) * execve(). This function needs to use IRET, not SYSRET, to set up all state properly. * * C extern interface: - * extern long execve(char *name, char **argv, char **envp) + * extern long execve(const char *name, char **argv, char **envp) * * asm input arguments: * rdi: name, rsi: argv, rdx: envp * * We want to fallback into: - * extern long sys_execve(char *name, char **argv,char **envp, struct pt_regs *regs) + * extern long sys_execve(const char *name, char **argv,char **envp, struct pt_regs *regs) * * do_sys_execve asm fallback arguments: * rdi: name, rsi: argv, rdx: envp, rcx: fake frame on the stack -- cgit v1.2.3