linux/arch/x86/mm
Linus Torvalds 7f81890687 x86: don't use 'access_ok()' as a range check in get_user_pages_fast()
It's really not right to use 'access_ok()', since that is meant for the
normal "get_user()" and "copy_from/to_user()" accesses, which are done
through the TLB, rather than through the page tables.

Why? access_ok() does both too few, and too many checks.  Too many,
because it is meant for regular kernel accesses that will not honor the
'user' bit in the page tables, and because it honors the USER_DS vs
KERNEL_DS distinction that we shouldn't care about in GUP.  And too few,
because it doesn't do the 'canonical' check on the address on x86-64,
since the TLB will do that for us.

So instead of using a function that isn't meant for this, and does
something else and much more complicated, just do the real rules: we
don't want the range to overflow, and on x86-64, we want it to be a
canonical low address (on 32-bit, all addresses are canonical).

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-20 09:52:27 -07:00
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kmemcheck kmemcheck: add opcode self-testing at boot 2009-06-15 15:49:22 +02:00
dump_pagetables.c x86: remove (null) in /sys kernel_page_tables 2009-04-14 11:50:22 +02:00
extable.c x86: uaccess: introduce try and catch framework 2009-01-23 17:17:36 -08:00
fault.c x86: add hooks for kmemcheck 2009-06-15 12:40:02 +02:00
gup.c x86: don't use 'access_ok()' as a range check in get_user_pages_fast() 2009-06-20 09:52:27 -07:00
highmem_32.c Merge commit 'origin/master' into for-linus/xen/master 2009-04-07 13:34:16 -07:00
hugetlbpage.c x86: ignore VM_LOCKED when determining if hugetlb-backed page tables can be shared or not 2009-05-29 08:40:03 -07:00
init.c x86: add hooks for kmemcheck 2009-06-15 12:40:02 +02:00
init_32.c Merge commit 'linus/master' into HEAD 2009-06-15 15:50:49 +02:00
init_64.c kmemcheck: don't track page tables 2009-06-15 12:40:11 +02:00
iomap_32.c Merge commit 'origin/master' into for-linus/xen/master 2009-04-07 13:34:16 -07:00
ioremap.c Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-04-17 09:56:11 -07:00
k8topology_64.c x86: k8 numa register active regions later 2009-01-06 13:21:21 +01:00
kmmio.c Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-05-07 11:17:34 +02:00
Makefile kmemcheck: add the kmemcheck core 2009-06-13 15:37:30 +02:00
memtest.c x86: memtest: use pointers of equal type for comparison 2009-06-11 16:26:35 +02:00
mmap.c x86: update copyrights 2009-01-31 04:21:18 +01:00
mmio-mod.c tracing: x86, mmiotrace: only register for die notifier when tracer active 2009-04-29 11:33:34 +02:00
numa.c cpumask: convert node_to_cpumask_map[] to cpumask_var_t 2009-03-13 14:35:31 +01:00
numa_32.c x86: mm/numa_32.c calculate_numa_remap_pages should use __init 2009-04-17 22:43:13 +02:00
numa_64.c x86, mm: Fix node_possible_map logic 2009-05-18 09:21:04 +02:00
pageattr-test.c x86: make sure the CPA test code's use of _PAGE_UNUSED1 is obvious 2008-09-05 17:09:57 +02:00
pageattr.c kmemcheck: don't track page tables 2009-06-15 12:40:11 +02:00
pat.c Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-04-17 09:56:11 -07:00
pf_in.c x86: fix mmiotrace 8-bit register decoding 2008-10-14 10:33:50 +02:00
pf_in.h x86 mmiotrace: move files into arch/x86/mm/. 2008-05-24 11:25:37 +02:00
pgtable.c kmemcheck: don't track page tables 2009-06-15 12:40:11 +02:00
pgtable_32.c x86/32: no need to use set_pte_present in set_pte_vaddr 2009-03-19 14:04:18 +01:00
srat_32.c x86: Fix a typo in a printk message 2009-05-06 12:23:12 +02:00
srat_64.c x86, mm: Fix node_possible_map logic 2009-05-18 09:21:04 +02:00
testmmiotrace.c x86: add far read test to testmmiotrace 2009-03-02 10:20:35 +01:00
tlb.c x86: add x2apic_wrmsr_fence() to x2apic flush tlb paths 2009-03-18 09:36:14 +01:00