From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being const
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:51:41 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100811.155141.71103284.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100811102622.30362.70210.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:26:22 +0100
> 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>
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