linux_dsm_epyc7002/security
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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apparmor Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-12-27 13:53:32 -08:00
integrity Merge branch 'next-tpm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-01-02 11:05:43 -08:00
keys KEYS: fix parsing invalid pkey info string 2019-01-01 13:13:19 -08:00
loadpin LoadPin: Rename boot param "enabled" to "enforce" 2018-10-18 15:29:44 -07:00
selinux Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-12-27 13:04:52 -08:00
smack smack: fix access permissions for keyring 2018-12-03 11:57:55 -08:00
tomoyo Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
yama pids: introduce find_get_task_by_vpid() helper 2018-02-06 18:32:46 -08:00
commoncap.c security: audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h 2018-12-12 14:58:51 -08:00
device_cgroup.c docs: fix broken references with multiple hints 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
inode.c security: fs: make inode explicitly non-modular 2018-12-12 14:58:51 -08:00
Kconfig treewide: surround Kconfig file paths with double quotes 2018-12-22 00:25:54 +09:00
lsm_audit.c audit: use inline function to get audit context 2018-05-14 17:24:18 -04:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
min_addr.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
security.c security: audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h 2018-12-12 14:58:51 -08:00