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| author | Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> | 2014-02-24 19:18:55 +0400 |
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| committer | Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> | 2014-02-24 20:14:00 +0400 |
| commit | 823002023da6d9124ed63bc622267c15ab2a7347 (patch) | |
| tree | cd2b74ff1b6844cca9821d63dfd7180b0a452c06 | |
| parent | 9499934f70deac0cdb96aa2d90f2a0a2de69d80c (diff) | |
| download | linux-823002023da6d9124ed63bc622267c15ab2a7347.tar.xz | |
s390/uaccess: remove copy_from_user_real()
There is no user left, so remove it.
It was also potentially broken, since the function didn't clear destination
memory if copy_from_user() failed. Which would allow for information leaks.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/s390/mm/maccess.c | 26 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h index 2710b41eed22..4133b3f72fb0 100644 --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h @@ -344,6 +344,5 @@ static inline unsigned long __must_check clear_user(void __user *to, unsigned lo } int copy_to_user_real(void __user *dest, void *src, unsigned long count); -int copy_from_user_real(void *dest, void __user *src, unsigned long count); #endif /* __S390_UACCESS_H */ diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/maccess.c b/arch/s390/mm/maccess.c index efe8ad045c7b..2a2e35416d2f 100644 --- a/arch/s390/mm/maccess.c +++ b/arch/s390/mm/maccess.c @@ -152,32 +152,6 @@ out: } /* - * Copy memory from user (virtual) to kernel (real) - */ -int copy_from_user_real(void *dest, void __user *src, unsigned long count) -{ - int offs = 0, size, rc; - char *buf; - - buf = (char *) __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL); - if (!buf) - return -ENOMEM; - rc = -EFAULT; - while (offs < count) { - size = min(PAGE_SIZE, count - offs); - if (copy_from_user(buf, src + offs, size)) - goto out; - if (memcpy_real(dest + offs, buf, size)) - goto out; - offs += size; - } - rc = 0; -out: - free_page((unsigned long) buf); - return rc; -} - -/* * Check if physical address is within prefix or zero page */ static int is_swapped(unsigned long addr) |