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authorDavid Howells2010-08-18 00:52:56 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds2010-08-18 03:07:43 +0200
commitd7627467b7a8dd6944885290a03a07ceb28c10eb (patch)
treea18c83468418e878cfb2d44e4310d81b8db84ad7 /init
parentLinux 2.6.36-rc1 (diff)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/do_mounts_initrd.c7
-rw-r--r--init/main.c6
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
index 2b108538d0d9..3098a38f3ae1 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
@@ -24,10 +24,11 @@ static int __init no_initrd(char *str)
__setup("noinitrd", no_initrd);
-static int __init do_linuxrc(void * shell)
+static int __init do_linuxrc(void *_shell)
{
- static char *argv[] = { "linuxrc", NULL, };
- extern char * envp_init[];
+ static const char *argv[] = { "linuxrc", NULL, };
+ extern const char *envp_init[];
+ const char *shell = _shell;
sys_close(old_fd);sys_close(root_fd);
sys_setsid();
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 22d61cb06f98..94ab488039aa 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -197,8 +197,8 @@ static int __init set_reset_devices(char *str)
__setup("reset_devices", set_reset_devices);
-static char * argv_init[MAX_INIT_ARGS+2] = { "init", NULL, };
-char * envp_init[MAX_INIT_ENVS+2] = { "HOME=/", "TERM=linux", NULL, };
+static const char * argv_init[MAX_INIT_ARGS+2] = { "init", NULL, };
+const char * envp_init[MAX_INIT_ENVS+2] = { "HOME=/", "TERM=linux", NULL, };
static const char *panic_later, *panic_param;
extern const struct obs_kernel_param __setup_start[], __setup_end[];
@@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ static void __init do_pre_smp_initcalls(void)
do_one_initcall(*fn);
}
-static void run_init_process(char *init_filename)
+static void run_init_process(const char *init_filename)
{
argv_init[0] = init_filename;
kernel_execve(init_filename, argv_init, envp_init);