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mm/uaccess, mm/fault: Clarify that uaccess may only sleep if pagefaults are enabled

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In general, non-atomic variants of user access functions must not sleep
if pagefaults are disabled.

Let's update all relevant comments in uaccess code. This also reflects
the might_sleep() checks in might_fault().

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: airlied@linux.ie
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Cc: daniel.vetter@intel.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: hocko@suse.cz
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: mst@redhat.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: yang.shi@windriver.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431359540-32227-4-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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David Hildenbrand
2015-05-11 17:52:08 +02:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 9ec23531fd
commit b3c395ef55
12 changed files with 118 additions and 59 deletions
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arch/tile/include/asm/uaccess.h
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@@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ int __range_ok(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size);
* @addr: User space pointer to start of block to check
* @size: Size of block to check
*
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep.
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are
* enabled.
*
* Checks if a pointer to a block of memory in user space is valid.
*
@@ -192,7 +193,8 @@ extern int __get_user_bad(void)
* @x: Variable to store result.
* @ptr: Source address, in user space.
*
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep.
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are
* enabled.
*
* This macro copies a single simple variable from user space to kernel
* space. It supports simple types like char and int, but not larger
@@ -274,7 +276,8 @@ extern int __put_user_bad(void)
* @x: Value to copy to user space.
* @ptr: Destination address, in user space.
*
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep.
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are
* enabled.
*
* This macro copies a single simple value from kernel space to user
* space. It supports simple types like char and int, but not larger
@@ -330,7 +333,8 @@ extern int __put_user_bad(void)
* @from: Source address, in kernel space.
* @n: Number of bytes to copy.
*
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep.
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are
* enabled.
*
* Copy data from kernel space to user space. Caller must check
* the specified block with access_ok() before calling this function.
@@ -366,7 +370,8 @@ copy_to_user(void __user *to, const void *from, unsigned long n)
* @from: Source address, in user space.
* @n: Number of bytes to copy.
*
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep.
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are
* enabled.
*
* Copy data from user space to kernel space. Caller must check
* the specified block with access_ok() before calling this function.
@@ -437,7 +442,8 @@ static inline unsigned long __must_check copy_from_user(void *to,
* @from: Source address, in user space.
* @n: Number of bytes to copy.
*
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep.
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are
* enabled.
*
* Copy data from user space to user space. Caller must check
* the specified blocks with access_ok() before calling this function.