readdir: make user_access_begin() use the real access range
In commit 9f79b78e ("Convert filldir[64]() from __put_user() to unsafe_put_user()") I changed filldir to not do individual __put_user() accesses, but instead use unsafe_put_user() surrounded by the proper user_access_begin/end() pair. That make them enormously faster on modern x86, where the STAC/CLAC games make individual user accesses fairly heavy-weight. However, the user_access_begin() range was not really the exact right one, since filldir() has the unfortunate problem that it needs to not only fill out the new directory entry, it also needs to fix up the previous one to contain the proper file offset. It's unfortunate, but the "d_off" field in "struct dirent" is _not_ the file offset of the directory entry itself - it's the offset of the next one. So we end up backfilling the offset in the previous entry as we walk along. But since x86 didn't really care about the exact range, and used to be the only architecture that did anything ...
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