From fc1c183353a113c71675fecd0485e5aa0fe68d72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pekka Enberg Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 19:23:40 +0300 Subject: 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 Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Matt Mackall Cc: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/slab.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/slab.h') 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); /* -- cgit v1.2.3