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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-18 12:35:51 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-18 12:35:51 -0700
commit5e857ce6eae7ca21b2055cca4885545e29228fe2 (patch)
treeb3b5b9a88222fe189ba44989a84932c7258c64c4 /fs
parent670d0a4b10704667765f7d18f7592993d02783aa (diff)
parent0c389d89abc28edf70ae847ee2fa55acb267b826 (diff)
Merge branch 'hch' (maccess patches from Christoph Hellwig)
Merge non-faulting memory access cleanups from Christoph Hellwig: "Andrew and I decided to drop the patches implementing your suggested rename of the probe_kernel_* and probe_user_* helpers from -mm as there were way to many conflicts. After -rc1 might be a good time for this as all the conflicts are resolved now" This also adds a type safety checking patch on top of the renaming series to make the subtle behavioral difference between 'get_user()' and 'get_kernel_nofault()' less potentially dangerous and surprising. * emailed patches from Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>: maccess: make get_kernel_nofault() check for minimal type compatibility maccess: rename probe_kernel_address to get_kernel_nofault maccess: rename probe_user_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_user_nofault maccess: rename probe_kernel_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/kcore.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/kcore.c b/fs/proc/kcore.c
index 8ba492d44e68..e502414b3556 100644
--- a/fs/proc/kcore.c
+++ b/fs/proc/kcore.c
@@ -512,7 +512,8 @@ read_kcore(struct file *file, char __user *buffer, size_t buflen, loff_t *fpos)
* Using bounce buffer to bypass the
* hardened user copy kernel text checks.
*/
- if (probe_kernel_read(buf, (void *) start, tsz)) {
+ if (copy_from_kernel_nofault(buf, (void *)start,
+ tsz)) {
if (clear_user(buffer, tsz)) {
ret = -EFAULT;
goto out;