From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755257Ab0HKWv0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:51:26 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:45348 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753630Ab0HKWvY (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:51:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:51:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20100811.155141.71103284.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 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20100811102622.30362.70210.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> References: <20100811102622.30362.70210.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: David Howells 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 Acked-by: David S. Miller