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<title>kernel/linux.git/arch/xtensa/include/asm/asm-uaccess.h, branch linux-7.0.y</title>
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<updated>2022-02-25T08:36:06+00:00</updated>
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<title>uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS</title>
<updated>2022-02-25T08:36:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
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<published>2022-02-11T20:42:45+00:00</published>
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There are no remaining callers of set_fs(), so CONFIG_SET_FS
can be removed globally, along with the thread_info field and
any references to it.

This turns access_ok() into a cheaper check against TASK_SIZE_MAX.

As CONFIG_SET_FS is now gone, drop all remaining references to
set_fs()/get_fs(), mm_segment_t, user_addr_max() and uaccess_kernel().

Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt; # for sparc32 changes
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sergey Matyukevich &lt;sergey.matyukevich@synopsys.com&gt; # for arc changes
Acked-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt; # [openrisc, asm-generic]
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>get rid of legacy 'get_ds()' function</title>
<updated>2019-03-04T18:50:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2019-03-04T18:39:05+00:00</published>
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Every in-kernel use of this function defined it to KERNEL_DS (either as
an actual define, or as an inline function).  It's an entirely
historical artifact, and long long long ago used to actually read the
segment selector valueof '%ds' on x86.

Which in the kernel is always KERNEL_DS.

Inspired by a patch from Jann Horn that just did this for a very small
subset of users (the ones in fs/), along with Al who suggested a script.
I then just took it to the logical extreme and removed all the remaining
gunk.

Roughly scripted with

   git grep -l '(get_ds())' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i 's/(get_ds())/(KERNEL_DS)/'
   git grep -lw 'get_ds' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i '/^#define get_ds()/d'

plus manual fixups to remove a few unusual usage patterns, the couple of
inline function cases and to fix up a comment that had become stale.

The 'get_ds()' function remains in an x86 kvm selftest, since in user
space it actually does something relevant.

Inspired-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Inspired-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>uaccess: move VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} definitions to linux/uaccess.h</title>
<updated>2017-03-06T01:40:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2016-12-27T23:00:15+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xtensa: split uaccess.h into C and asm sides</title>
<updated>2016-09-28T01:15:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2016-09-04T18:26:36+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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