linux_dsm_epyc7002/tools
Linus Torvalds 96d4f267e4 Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function
Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
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accounting delayacct: track delays from thrashing cache pages 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
arch powerpc updates for 4.21 2018-12-27 10:43:24 -08:00
bpf tools: bpftool: do not force gcc as CC 2018-12-19 21:57:25 +01:00
build perf cs-etm: Support for ARM A32/T32 instruction sets in CoreSight trace 2018-12-17 14:56:18 -03:00
cgroup
crypto crypto: user - rename err_cnt parameter 2018-12-07 14:15:00 +08:00
firewire
firmware tools: Add 'firmware' category and add ihex2fw tool 2018-11-11 12:58:27 -08:00
gpio
hv Tools: hv: kvp: Fix a warning of buffer overflow with gcc 8.0.1 2018-11-11 12:58:27 -08:00
iio tools iio: Override CFLAGS assignments 2018-10-21 13:25:42 +01:00
include nds32 patches for 4.21 2018-12-29 09:37:03 -08:00
kvm/kvm_stat tools/kvm_stat: switch to python3 2018-11-27 12:53:44 +01:00
laptop
leds
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-12-27 13:04:52 -08:00
memory-model tools/memory-model: Add more LKMM limitations 2018-10-02 10:28:04 +02:00
nfsd
objtool objtool: Fix segfault in .cold detection with -ffunction-sections 2018-11-20 18:59:00 +01:00
pci tools: PCI: Change pcitest compiling process 2018-10-03 11:19:52 +01:00
pcmcia
perf Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
power ACPI updates for 4.21-rc1 2018-12-25 14:21:18 -08:00
scripts
spi spi: spidev_test: Improve decoded text part of hex dump 2018-09-04 17:00:37 +01:00
testing Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-01-03 12:53:47 -08:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb usbip: tools: fix atoi() on non-null terminated string 2018-10-18 19:44:39 +02:00
virtio virtio: fix test build after uio.h change 2018-12-19 18:23:49 -05:00
vm tools/vm/page-types.c: fix "kpagecount returned fewer pages than expected" failures 2018-12-28 12:11:50 -08:00
wmi
Makefile tools: Add 'firmware' category and add ihex2fw tool 2018-11-11 12:58:27 -08:00