[PATCH] Constify compat_get_bitmap argument

This means we can call it when the bitmap we want to fetch is declared
const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/compat.h b/include/linux/compat.h
index f4ebf96f5308ea0c50310bbff32745d626f69567..f1553196826f29d606c6651a1f6d27d1db5e957c 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/compat.h
+++ b/include/linux/compat.h
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_select(int n, compat_ulong_t __user *inp,
 #define BITS_TO_COMPAT_LONGS(bits) \
        (((bits)+BITS_PER_COMPAT_LONG-1)/BITS_PER_COMPAT_LONG)
 
-long compat_get_bitmap(unsigned long *mask, compat_ulong_t __user *umask,
+long compat_get_bitmap(unsigned long *mask, const compat_ulong_t __user *umask,
                       unsigned long bitmap_size);
 long compat_put_bitmap(compat_ulong_t __user *umask, unsigned long *mask,
                       unsigned long bitmap_size);

diff --git a/kernel/compat.c b/kernel/compat.c
index 75573e5d27b05c92dd1a11aaf483415935032624..d4898aad6cfa72ff46d78a8728c5d005531a338a 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/compat.c
+++ b/kernel/compat.c
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ int get_compat_sigevent(struct sigevent *event,
                ? -EFAULT : 0;
 }
 
-long compat_get_bitmap(unsigned long *mask, compat_ulong_t __user *umask,
+long compat_get_bitmap(unsigned long *mask, const compat_ulong_t __user *umask,
                       unsigned long bitmap_size)
 {
        int i, j;