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authorChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2022-08-29 14:38:45 +0200
committerChristian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>2022-08-31 16:38:07 +0200
commit6344e66970c619a1623f457910e78819076e9104 (patch)
treef67d5becd46c6c1cb7f9a885a2ded093287941e8 /fs/xattr.c
parent7e1401acd9f2807ff271100c5ce1fa84bf27a252 (diff)
xattr: constify value argument in vfs_setxattr()
Now that we don't perform translations directly in vfs_setxattr() anymore we can constify the @value argument in vfs_setxattr(). This also allows us to remove the hack to cast from a const in ovl_do_setxattr(). Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) <sforshee@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xattr.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xattr.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 3ac68ec0c023..74fc8e021ebc 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ static inline bool is_posix_acl_xattr(const char *name)
int
vfs_setxattr(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct dentry *dentry,
- const char *name, void *value, size_t size, int flags)
+ const char *name, const void *value, size_t size, int flags)
{
struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
struct inode *delegated_inode = NULL;
@@ -298,8 +298,7 @@ vfs_setxattr(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct dentry *dentry,
int error;
if (size && strcmp(name, XATTR_NAME_CAPS) == 0) {
- error = cap_convert_nscap(mnt_userns, dentry,
- (const void **)&value, size);
+ error = cap_convert_nscap(mnt_userns, dentry, &value, size);
if (error < 0)
return error;
size = error;