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authorReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@linux.intel.com>2006-10-11 01:21:55 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-11 11:14:22 -0700
commit01a3ee2b203e511e20f98b85a9172fd32c53e87c (patch)
tree0dd90d81dc86f231828af23bdb97522405b06cab /kernel
parent39484e53bb00f55b6303a908070db133608ef2a5 (diff)
[PATCH] bitmap: parse input from kernel and user buffers
lib/bitmap.c:bitmap_parse() is a library function that received as input a user buffer. This seemed to have originated from the way the write_proc function of the /proc filesystem operates. This has been reworked to not use kmalloc and eliminates a lot of get_user() overhead by performing one access_ok before using __get_user(). We need to test if we are in kernel or user space (is_user) and access the buffer differently. We cannot use __get_user() to access kernel addresses in all cases, for example in architectures with separate address space for kernel and user. This function will be useful for other uses as well; for example, taking input for /sysfs instead of /proc, so it was changed to accept kernel buffers. We have this use for the Linux UWB project, as part as the upcoming bandwidth allocator code. Only a few routines used this function and they were changed too. Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/irq/proc.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/profile.c2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/irq/proc.c b/kernel/irq/proc.c
index 607c7809ad0..9a352667007 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/proc.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/proc.c
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ static int irq_affinity_write_proc(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
if (!irq_desc[irq].chip->set_affinity || no_irq_affinity)
return -EIO;
- err = cpumask_parse(buffer, count, new_value);
+ err = cpumask_parse_user(buffer, count, new_value);
if (err)
return err;
diff --git a/kernel/profile.c b/kernel/profile.c
index 857300a2afe..f940b462eec 100644
--- a/kernel/profile.c
+++ b/kernel/profile.c
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ static int prof_cpu_mask_write_proc (struct file *file, const char __user *buffe
unsigned long full_count = count, err;
cpumask_t new_value;
- err = cpumask_parse(buffer, count, new_value);
+ err = cpumask_parse_user(buffer, count, new_value);
if (err)
return err;