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Commit 3d708182 authored by Masami Hiramatsu's avatar Masami Hiramatsu Committed by Steven Rostedt (VMware)
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uaccess: Add non-pagefault user-space read functions

Add probe_user_read(), strncpy_from_unsafe_user() and
strnlen_unsafe_user() which allows caller to access user-space
in IRQ context.

Current probe_kernel_read() and strncpy_from_unsafe() are
not available for user-space memory, because it sets
KERNEL_DS while accessing data. On some arch, user address
space and kernel address space can be co-exist, but others
can not. In that case, setting KERNEL_DS means given
address is treated as a kernel address space.
Also strnlen_user() is only available from user context since
it can sleep if pagefault is enabled.

To access user-space memory without pagefault, we need
these new functions which sets USER_DS while accessing
the data.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155789869802.26965.4940338412595759063.stgit@devnote2



Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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