From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
From: Michael Still <mikal@stillhq.com>
Viro and Andi Kleen agreed. The <flags> argument isn't used at all and
cannot be used safely in the future.
remove third arg <long flags> from all 3 fs/stat.c stat64() calls since
it's not used and there's no way to use it safely;
---
fs/stat.c | 6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/stat.c~janitor-13-stat-remove-flags fs/stat.c
--- 25/fs/stat.c~janitor-13-stat-remove-flags 2004-01-19 00:10:59.000000000 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/fs/stat.c 2004-01-19 00:10:59.000000000 -0800
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ static long cp_new_stat64(struct kstat *
return copy_to_user(statbuf,&tmp,sizeof(tmp)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
}
-asmlinkage long sys_stat64(char __user * filename, struct stat64 __user * statbuf, long flags)
+asmlinkage long sys_stat64(char __user * filename, struct stat64 __user * statbuf)
{
struct kstat stat;
int error = vfs_stat(filename, &stat);
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_stat64(char __user *
return error;
}
-asmlinkage long sys_lstat64(char __user * filename, struct stat64 __user * statbuf, long flags)
+asmlinkage long sys_lstat64(char __user * filename, struct stat64 __user * statbuf)
{
struct kstat stat;
int error = vfs_lstat(filename, &stat);
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_lstat64(char __user
return error;
}
-asmlinkage long sys_fstat64(unsigned long fd, struct stat64 __user * statbuf, long flags)
+asmlinkage long sys_fstat64(unsigned long fd, struct stat64 __user * statbuf)
{
struct kstat stat;
int error = vfs_fstat(fd, &stat);
_