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mm/uaccess, mm/fault: Clarify that uaccess may only sleep if pagefaults are enabled

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In general, non-atomic variants of user access functions must not sleep
if pagefaults are disabled.

Let's update all relevant comments in uaccess code. This also reflects
the might_sleep() checks in might_fault().

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: airlied@linux.ie
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Cc: daniel.vetter@intel.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: hocko@suse.cz
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: mst@redhat.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: yang.shi@windriver.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431359540-32227-4-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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David Hildenbrand 2015-05-11 17:52:08 +02:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 9ec23531fd
commit b3c395ef55
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arch/m32r/include/asm/uaccess.h
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@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ static inline void set_fs(mm_segment_t s)
* @addr: User space pointer to start of block to check
* @size: Size of block to check
*
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep.
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are
* enabled.
*
* Checks if a pointer to a block of memory in user space is valid.
*
@ -155,7 +156,8 @@ extern int fixup_exception(struct pt_regs *regs);
* @x: Variable to store result.
* @ptr: Source address, in user space.
*
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep.
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are
* enabled.
*
* This macro copies a single simple variable from user space to kernel
* space. It supports simple types like char and int, but not larger
@ -175,7 +177,8 @@ extern int fixup_exception(struct pt_regs *regs);
* @x: Value to copy to user space.
* @ptr: Destination address, in user space.
*
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep.
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are
* enabled.
*
* This macro copies a single simple value from kernel space to user
* space. It supports simple types like char and int, but not larger
@ -194,7 +197,8 @@ extern int fixup_exception(struct pt_regs *regs);
* @x: Variable to store result.
* @ptr: Source address, in user space.
*
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep.
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are
* enabled.
*
* This macro copies a single simple variable from user space to kernel
* space. It supports simple types like char and int, but not larger
@ -274,7 +278,8 @@ do { \
* @x: Value to copy to user space.
* @ptr: Destination address, in user space.
*
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep.
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are
* enabled.
*
* This macro copies a single simple value from kernel space to user
* space. It supports simple types like char and int, but not larger
@ -568,7 +573,8 @@ unsigned long __generic_copy_from_user(void *, const void __user *, unsigned lon
* @from: Source address, in kernel space.
* @n: Number of bytes to copy.
*
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep.
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are
* enabled.
*
* Copy data from kernel space to user space. Caller must check
* the specified block with access_ok() before calling this function.
@ -588,7 +594,8 @@ unsigned long __generic_copy_from_user(void *, const void __user *, unsigned lon
* @from: Source address, in kernel space.
* @n: Number of bytes to copy.
*
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep.
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are
* enabled.
*
* Copy data from kernel space to user space.
*
@ -606,7 +613,8 @@ unsigned long __generic_copy_from_user(void *, const void __user *, unsigned lon
* @from: Source address, in user space.
* @n: Number of bytes to copy.
*
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep.
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are
* enabled.
*
* Copy data from user space to kernel space. Caller must check
* the specified block with access_ok() before calling this function.
@ -626,7 +634,8 @@ unsigned long __generic_copy_from_user(void *, const void __user *, unsigned lon
* @from: Source address, in user space.
* @n: Number of bytes to copy.
*
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep.
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are
* enabled.
*
* Copy data from user space to kernel space.
*
@ -677,7 +686,8 @@ unsigned long clear_user(void __user *mem, unsigned long len);
* strlen_user: - Get the size of a string in user space.
* @str: The string to measure.
*
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep.
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are
* enabled.
*
* Get the size of a NUL-terminated string in user space.
*