kmod: make usermodehelper path a const string

This is in preparation for making it so that usermode helper programs
can't be changed, if desired, by userspace.  We will tackle the mess of
cleaning up the write-ability of argv and env later, that's going to
take more work, for much less gain...

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index d45c96073afb..426a614e97fe 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ static void helper_unlock(void)
  * Function must be runnable in either a process context or the
  * context in which call_usermodehelper_exec is called.
  */
-struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv,
+struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(const char *path, char **argv,
 		char **envp, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 		int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info, struct cred *new),
 		void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *info),
@@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_exec);
  * This function is the equivalent to use call_usermodehelper_setup() and
  * call_usermodehelper_exec().
  */
-int call_usermodehelper(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, int wait)
+int call_usermodehelper(const char *path, char **argv, char **envp, int wait)
 {
 	struct subprocess_info *info;
 	gfp_t gfp_mask = (wait == UMH_NO_WAIT) ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;