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| author | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-11-05 18:46:03 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -0800 |
| commit | 0ab32b6f1b88444524e52429fab334ff96683a3f (patch) | |
| tree | 421de8da078f1ca72131097fdee0b9d4d1ef7c59 /arch/powerpc | |
| parent | 86d2adccfbe7d5a1f050fa08db9638c9168736d9 (diff) | |
uaccess: reimplement probe_kernel_address() using probe_kernel_read()
probe_kernel_address() is basically the same as the (later added)
probe_kernel_read().
The return value on EFAULT is a bit different: probe_kernel_address()
returns number-of-bytes-not-copied whereas probe_kernel_read() returns
-EFAULT. All callers have been checked, none cared.
probe_kernel_read() can be overridden by the architecture whereas
probe_kernel_address() cannot. parisc, blackfin and um do this, to insert
additional checking. Hence this patch possibly fixes obscure bugs,
although there are only two probe_kernel_address() callsites outside
arch/.
My first attempt involved removing probe_kernel_address() entirely and
converting all callsites to use probe_kernel_read() directly, but that got
tiresome.
This patch shrinks mm/slab_common.o by 218 bytes. For a single
probe_kernel_address() callsite.
Cc: Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_pci.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_pci.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_pci.c index ebc1f412cf49..13b9bcf5485e 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_pci.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_pci.c @@ -999,7 +999,7 @@ int fsl_pci_mcheck_exception(struct pt_regs *regs) ret = get_user(regs->nip, &inst); pagefault_enable(); } else { - ret = probe_kernel_address(regs->nip, inst); + ret = probe_kernel_address((void *)regs->nip, inst); } if (mcheck_handle_load(regs, inst)) { |