kernel/arch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h, branch linux-5.1.y

get rid of legacy 'get_ds()' function

2019-03-04T18:50:14Z

Every in-kernel use of this function defined it to KERNEL_DS (either as an actual define, or as an inline function). It's an entirely historical artifact, and long long long ago used to actually read the segment selector valueof '%ds' on x86. Which in the kernel is always KERNEL_DS. Inspired by a patch from Jann Horn that just did this for a very small subset of users (the ones in fs/), along with Al who suggested a script. I then just took it to the logical extreme and removed all the remaining gunk. Roughly scripted with git grep -l '(get_ds())' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i 's/(get_ds())/(KERNEL_DS)/' git grep -lw 'get_ds' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i '/^#define get_ds()/d' plus manual fixups to remove a few unusual usage patterns, the couple of inline function cases and to fix up a comment that had become stale. The 'get_ds()' function remains in an x86 kvm selftest, since in user space it actually does something relevant. Inspired-by: Jann Horn Inspired-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function

2019-01-04T02:57:57Z

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

MIPS: uaccess: Add micromips clobbers to bzero invocation

2018-04-18T21:02:29Z

The micromips implementation of bzero additionally clobbers registers t7 & t8. Specify this in the clobbers list when invoking bzero. Fixes: 26c5e07d1478 ("MIPS: microMIPS: Optimise 'memset' core library function.") Reported-by: James Hogan Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: # 3.10+ Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19110/ Signed-off-by: James Hogan

Merge branch 'work.uaccess-unaligned' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2017-07-15T18:17:52Z

Pull uacess-unaligned removal from Al Viro: "That stuff had just one user, and an exotic one, at that - binfmt_flat on arm and m68k" * 'work.uaccess-unaligned' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: kill {__,}{get,put}_user_unaligned() binfmt_flat: flat_{get,put}_addr_from_rp() should be able to fail

kill {__,}{get,put}_user_unaligned()

2017-07-03T22:44:22Z

no users left Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mips: get rid of unused __strnlen_user()

2017-05-16T03:40:32Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

get rid of unused __strncpy_from_user() instances

2017-05-16T03:40:28Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

kill strlen_user()

2017-05-16T03:40:22Z

no callers, no consistent semantics, no sane way to use it... Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mips: switch to RAW_COPY_USER

2017-04-06T06:08:09Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mips: get rid of tail-zeroing in primitives

2017-04-06T06:08:08Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro