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>
Our sigreturn functions make use of a macro named nabi_no_regargs to
declare 8 dummy arguments to a function, forcing the compiler to expect
a pt_regs structure on the stack rather than in argument registers. This
is an ugly hack which unnecessarily causes these sigreturn functions to
need to care about the calling convention of the ABI the kernel is built
for. Although this is abstracted via nabi_no_regargs, it's still ugly &
unnecessary.
Remove nabi_no_regargs & the struct pt_regs argument from sigreturn
functions, and instead use current_pt_regs() to find the struct pt_regs
on the stack, which works cleanly regardless of ABI.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20106/
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
We are going to split <linux/sched/signal.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/signal.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The commit ebb5e78cc6 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
caused building a 64 bit kernel with support for n32 and not o32
to produce a build error:
arch/mips/kernel/signal32.c:415:11: error: ‘vdso_image_o32’ undeclared here (not in a function)
.vdso = &vdso_image_o32,
Fix this by moving the o32 specific code into signal_o32.c and
updating the Makefile accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Hunt <harvey.hunt@imgtec.com>
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com>
Cc: Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13690/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Linus Torvalds