[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>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/cpumask.h b/include/linux/cpumask.h
index b268a3c0c376..d0e8c8b0e34d 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpumask.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpumask.h
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
  * See detailed comments in the file linux/bitmap.h describing the
  * data type on which these cpumasks are based.
  *
- * For details of cpumask_scnprintf() and cpumask_parse(),
- * see bitmap_scnprintf() and bitmap_parse() in lib/bitmap.c.
+ * For details of cpumask_scnprintf() and cpumask_parse_user(),
+ * see bitmap_scnprintf() and bitmap_parse_user() in lib/bitmap.c.
  * For details of cpulist_scnprintf() and cpulist_parse(), see
  * bitmap_scnlistprintf() and bitmap_parselist(), also in bitmap.c.
  * For details of cpu_remap(), see bitmap_bitremap in lib/bitmap.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
  * unsigned long *cpus_addr(mask)	Array of unsigned long's in mask
  *
  * int cpumask_scnprintf(buf, len, mask) Format cpumask for printing
- * int cpumask_parse(ubuf, ulen, mask)	Parse ascii string as cpumask
+ * int cpumask_parse_user(ubuf, ulen, mask)	Parse ascii string as cpumask
  * int cpulist_scnprintf(buf, len, mask) Format cpumask as list for printing
  * int cpulist_parse(buf, map)		Parse ascii string as cpulist
  * int cpu_remap(oldbit, old, new)	newbit = map(old, new)(oldbit)
@@ -273,12 +273,12 @@ static inline int __cpumask_scnprintf(char *buf, int len,
 	return bitmap_scnprintf(buf, len, srcp->bits, nbits);
 }
 
-#define cpumask_parse(ubuf, ulen, dst) \
-			__cpumask_parse((ubuf), (ulen), &(dst), NR_CPUS)
-static inline int __cpumask_parse(const char __user *buf, int len,
+#define cpumask_parse_user(ubuf, ulen, dst) \
+			__cpumask_parse_user((ubuf), (ulen), &(dst), NR_CPUS)
+static inline int __cpumask_parse_user(const char __user *buf, int len,
 					cpumask_t *dstp, int nbits)
 {
-	return bitmap_parse(buf, len, dstp->bits, nbits);
+	return bitmap_parse_user(buf, len, dstp->bits, nbits);
 }
 
 #define cpulist_scnprintf(buf, len, src) \