uaccess: Add non-pagefault user-space read functions
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Wed, 15 May 2019 05:38:18 +0000 (14:38 +0900)
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Sun, 26 May 2019 03:04:42 +0000 (23:04 -0400)
commit3d7081822f7f9eab867d9bcc8fd635208ec438e0
tree8afb5e61c1f23305996d4a8e03dedd7c048de01d
parent2d8d8fac3b4eab035dcd0068e1f5a746a697fbb3
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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
include/linux/uaccess.h
mm/maccess.c