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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c | 49 |
1 files changed, 49 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c index b4908789484e..c074799bddae 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c +++ b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c @@ -34,3 +34,52 @@ copy_from_user_nmi(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n) return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(copy_from_user_nmi); + +/** + * copy_to_user: - Copy a block of data into user space. + * @to: Destination address, in user space. + * @from: Source address, in kernel space. + * @n: Number of bytes to copy. + * + * Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are + * enabled. + * + * Copy data from kernel space to user space. + * + * Returns number of bytes that could not be copied. + * On success, this will be zero. + */ +unsigned long _copy_to_user(void __user *to, const void *from, unsigned n) +{ + if (access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, to, n)) + n = __copy_to_user(to, from, n); + return n; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(_copy_to_user); + +/** + * copy_from_user: - Copy a block of data from user space. + * @to: Destination address, in kernel space. + * @from: Source address, in user space. + * @n: Number of bytes to copy. + * + * Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are + * enabled. + * + * Copy data from user space to kernel space. + * + * Returns number of bytes that could not be copied. + * On success, this will be zero. + * + * If some data could not be copied, this function will pad the copied + * data to the requested size using zero bytes. + */ +unsigned long _copy_from_user(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned n) +{ + if (access_ok(VERIFY_READ, from, n)) + n = __copy_from_user(to, from, n); + else + memset(to, 0, n); + return n; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(_copy_from_user); |