linux/drivers/char
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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agp mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic 2018-12-28 12:11:47 -08:00
hw_random hwrng: bcm2835 - Switch to SPDX identifier 2018-11-16 14:11:04 +08:00
ipmi drivers/ipmi: Replace synchronize_sched() with synchronize_rcu() 2018-11-27 09:21:36 -08:00
mwave char/mwave: make some arrays static const to make object code smaller 2017-07-17 17:23:16 +02:00
pcmcia Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
tpm tpm: add support for partial reads 2018-12-17 13:45:10 +02:00
xilinx_hwicap char: xilinx_hwicap: Fix warnings in the driver 2017-08-28 17:04:47 +02:00
xillybus PCI: Add Altera vendor ID 2018-03-14 19:13:47 +01:00
adi.c char: sparc64: Add privileged ADI driver 2018-06-05 11:24:55 -07:00
apm-emulation.c proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
applicom.c applicom: constify pci_device_id. 2017-08-28 17:11:28 +02:00
applicom.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
bsr.c
ds1620.c proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
dsp56k.c vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
dtlk.c vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
efirtc.c proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
generic_nvram.c Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
hangcheck-timer.c treewide: Switch DEFINE_TIMER callbacks to struct timer_list * 2017-11-21 15:57:05 -08:00
hpet.c hpet: remove redundant pointer hpet 2018-07-03 13:01:57 +02:00
Kconfig ttyprintk: make the printk log level configurable 2018-11-09 08:58:18 -08:00
lp.c char: lp: use new parport device model 2018-12-19 10:40:17 +01:00
Makefile char: sparc64: Add privileged ADI driver 2018-06-05 11:24:55 -07:00
mbcs.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
mbcs.h
mem.c Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
misc.c proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
mspec.c char: mspec: change return type to vm_fault_t 2018-04-23 13:51:53 +02:00
nsc_gpio.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
nvram.c proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
nwbutton.c treewide: Switch DEFINE_TIMER callbacks to struct timer_list * 2017-11-21 15:57:05 -08:00
nwbutton.h treewide: Switch DEFINE_TIMER callbacks to struct timer_list * 2017-11-21 15:57:05 -08:00
nwflash.c Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
pc8736x_gpio.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
powernv-op-panel.c powerpc/powernv: Add driver for operator panel on FSP machines 2016-06-29 17:33:46 +10:00
ppdev.c vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
ps3flash.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
random.c crypto: chacha20-generic - refactor to allow varying number of rounds 2018-11-20 14:26:55 +08:00
raw.c treewide: Use array_size() in vzalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
rtc.c RTC for 4.21 2019-01-01 13:24:31 -08:00
scx200_gpio.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
snsc_event.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:29 +01:00
snsc.c vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
snsc.h
sonypi.c vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
tb0219.c mips: separate extable.h, switch module.h to it 2016-10-05 18:36:18 -04:00
tlclk.c tlclk: clean an indentation issue, remove extraneous tabs 2018-11-11 12:58:27 -08:00
toshiba.c proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
ttyprintk.c ttyprintk: make the printk log level configurable 2018-11-09 08:58:18 -08:00
uv_mmtimer.c
virtio_console.c char: virtio: Change to use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE macro 2018-12-06 15:42:18 +01:00