linux/arch/sparc
David Howells d7627467b7 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>
2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
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boot Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2010-06-16 18:08:13 +02:00
configs defconfig reduction 2010-08-14 22:26:53 +02:00
include/asm dma-mapping: remove dma_is_consistent API 2010-08-11 08:59:21 -07:00
kernel Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer 2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
lib sparc64: Allocate sufficient stack space in ftrace stubs. 2010-04-13 18:59:02 -07:00
math-emu Revert "endian: #define __BYTE_ORDER" 2010-05-26 08:30:15 -07:00
mm kmap_atomic: make kunmap_atomic() harder to misuse 2010-08-09 20:44:54 -07:00
oprofile sparc: using HZ needs an include of linux/param.h 2009-10-05 00:46:08 -07:00
prom sparc64: Make prom entry spinlock NMI safe. 2010-03-03 09:06:03 -08:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'timers-timekeeping-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-08-06 13:18:29 -07:00
Kconfig.debug sparc: Kill user copy check code. 2010-08-09 00:45:46 -07:00
Makefile sparc: Set UTS_MACHINE correctly. 2009-12-05 17:17:55 -08:00