vt: selection: allow functions to be called from inside kernel
authorOkash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com>
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:21:13 +0000 (13:21 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 19 Apr 2019 13:09:10 +0000 (15:09 +0200)
commit496124e5e16e4974c71404bc9ddaa016156f8cb0
tree44fdfdd19c83589f60a4acb5489cbe0a783f80e9
parent827c085baede48155c57dff16396620c5377e755
vt: selection: allow functions to be called from inside kernel

This patch breaks set_selection() into two functions so that when
called from kernel, copy_from_user() can be avoided. The two functions
are called set_selection_user() and set_selection_kernel() in order to
be explicit about their purposes. This also means updating any
references to set_selection() and fixing for name change. It also
exports set_selection_kernel() and paste_selection().

These changes are used the following patch where speakup's selection
functionality calls into the above functions, thereby doing away with
parallel implementation.

Signed-off-by: Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Tested-by: Gregory Nowak <greg@gregn.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
include/linux/selection.h