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>
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* Safely read from address @src to the buffer at @dst. If a kernel fault
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* happens, handle that and return -EFAULT.
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* We ensure that the copy_from_user is executed in atomic context so that
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* do_page_fault() doesn't attempt to take mmap_sem. This makes
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* probe_kernel_read() suitable for use within regions where the caller
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* already holds mmap_sem, or other locks which nest inside mmap_sem.
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long __weak probe_kernel_read(void *dst, const void *src, size_t size)
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