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Commit 73e18f7c authored by Christoph Hellwig's avatar Christoph Hellwig Committed by Al Viro
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fs: make the buf argument to __kernel_write a void pointer 



This matches kernel_read and kernel_write and avoids any need for casts in
the callers.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parent e13ec939

fs/read_write.c

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@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ ssize_t __vfs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *p, size_t count, 
}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vfs_write);



ssize_t __kernel_write(struct file *file, const char *buf, size_t count, loff_t *pos)

ssize_t __kernel_write(struct file *file, const void *buf, size_t count, loff_t *pos)

{

	mm_segment_t old_fs;

	const char __user *p;

include/linux/fs.h

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@@ -2780,7 +2780,7 @@ extern int kernel_read_file_from_fd(int, void **, loff_t *, loff_t, 
				    enum kernel_read_file_id);

extern ssize_t kernel_read(struct file *, void *, size_t, loff_t *);

extern ssize_t kernel_write(struct file *, const void *, size_t, loff_t *);

extern ssize_t __kernel_write(struct file *, const char *, size_t, loff_t *);

extern ssize_t __kernel_write(struct file *, const void *, size_t, loff_t *);

extern struct file * open_exec(const char *);

 

/* fs/dcache.c -- generic fs support functions */

kernel/acct.c

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@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ static void do_acct_process(struct bsd_acct_struct *acct) 
	if (file_start_write_trylock(file)) {

		/* it's been opened O_APPEND, so position is irrelevant */

		loff_t pos = 0;

		__kernel_write(file, (char *)&ac, sizeof(acct_t), &pos);

		__kernel_write(file, &ac, sizeof(acct_t), &pos);

		file_end_write(file);

	}

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