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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2020-06-17 09:37:54 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-17 10:57:41 -0700
commitc0ee37e85e0e47402b8bbe35b6cec8e06937ca58 (patch)
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parentfe557319aa06c23cffc9346000f119547e0f289a (diff)
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maccess: rename probe_user_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_user_nofault
Better describe what these functions do. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/maccess.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/maccess.c12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/maccess.c b/mm/maccess.c
index cc5d8c6233c0..f98ff91e32c6 100644
--- a/mm/maccess.c
+++ b/mm/maccess.c
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ long strncpy_from_kernel_nofault(char *dst, const void *unsafe_addr, long count)
#endif /* HAVE_GET_KERNEL_NOFAULT */
/**
- * probe_user_read(): safely attempt to read from a user-space location
+ * copy_from_user_nofault(): safely attempt to read from a user-space location
* @dst: pointer to the buffer that shall take the data
* @src: address to read from. This must be a user address.
* @size: size of the data chunk
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ long strncpy_from_kernel_nofault(char *dst, const void *unsafe_addr, long count)
* Safely read from user address @src to the buffer at @dst. If a kernel fault
* happens, handle that and return -EFAULT.
*/
-long probe_user_read(void *dst, const void __user *src, size_t size)
+long copy_from_user_nofault(void *dst, const void __user *src, size_t size)
{
long ret = -EFAULT;
mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs();
@@ -219,10 +219,10 @@ long probe_user_read(void *dst, const void __user *src, size_t size)
return -EFAULT;
return 0;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(probe_user_read);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(copy_from_user_nofault);
/**
- * probe_user_write(): safely attempt to write to a user-space location
+ * copy_to_user_nofault(): safely attempt to write to a user-space location
* @dst: address to write to
* @src: pointer to the data that shall be written
* @size: size of the data chunk
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(probe_user_read);
* Safely write to address @dst from the buffer at @src. If a kernel fault
* happens, handle that and return -EFAULT.
*/
-long probe_user_write(void __user *dst, const void *src, size_t size)
+long copy_to_user_nofault(void __user *dst, const void *src, size_t size)
{
long ret = -EFAULT;
mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs();
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ long probe_user_write(void __user *dst, const void *src, size_t size)
return -EFAULT;
return 0;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(probe_user_write);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(copy_to_user_nofault);
/**
* strncpy_from_user_nofault: - Copy a NUL terminated string from unsafe user