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authorPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>2010-04-07 19:23:40 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-04-09 10:09:50 -0700
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slab: Generify kernel pointer validation
As suggested by Linus, introduce a kern_ptr_validate() helper that does some sanity checks to make sure a pointer is a valid kernel pointer. This is a preparational step for fixing SLUB kmem_ptr_validate(). Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 488446289cab..49d1247cd6d9 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ int kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *);
void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *, void *);
unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *);
const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_cache *);
+int kern_ptr_validate(const void *ptr, unsigned long size);
int kmem_ptr_validate(struct kmem_cache *cachep, const void *ptr);
/*