linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] vfs: constify path argument to kernel_read_file_from

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Date:   Fri, 15 Sep 2017 11:37:21 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-ima-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] vfs: constify path argument to kernel_read_file_from_path

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 9:58 PM, Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> This patch constifies the path argument to kernel_read_file_from_path.

I've applied this upstream independently of everything else, because
it's obviously the right thing to do (as the sound_firmware.h part of
the patch shows, never mind the whole "we're just passing the pathname
to filp_open() which takes a const char"  thing).

               lINUS