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authorSrikant Patnaik2015-01-11 12:28:04 +0530
committerSrikant Patnaik2015-01-11 12:28:04 +0530
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+#ifndef __LINUX_UACCESS_H__
+#define __LINUX_UACCESS_H__
+
+#include <linux/preempt.h>
+#include <asm/uaccess.h>
+
+/*
+ * These routines enable/disable the pagefault handler in that
+ * it will not take any locks and go straight to the fixup table.
+ *
+ * They have great resemblance to the preempt_disable/enable calls
+ * and in fact they are identical; this is because currently there is
+ * no other way to make the pagefault handlers do this. So we do
+ * disable preemption but we don't necessarily care about that.
+ */
+static inline void pagefault_disable(void)
+{
+ inc_preempt_count();
+ /*
+ * make sure to have issued the store before a pagefault
+ * can hit.
+ */
+ barrier();
+}
+
+static inline void pagefault_enable(void)
+{
+ /*
+ * make sure to issue those last loads/stores before enabling
+ * the pagefault handler again.
+ */
+ barrier();
+ dec_preempt_count();
+ /*
+ * make sure we do..
+ */
+ barrier();
+ preempt_check_resched();
+}
+
+#ifndef ARCH_HAS_NOCACHE_UACCESS
+
+static inline unsigned long __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache(void *to,
+ const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
+{
+ return __copy_from_user_inatomic(to, from, n);
+}
+
+static inline unsigned long __copy_from_user_nocache(void *to,
+ const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
+{
+ return __copy_from_user(to, from, n);
+}
+
+#endif /* ARCH_HAS_NOCACHE_UACCESS */
+
+/**
+ * probe_kernel_address(): safely attempt to read from a location
+ * @addr: address to read from - its type is type typeof(retval)*
+ * @retval: read into this variable
+ *
+ * Safely read from address @addr into variable @revtal. If a kernel fault
+ * happens, handle that and return -EFAULT.
+ * We ensure that the __get_user() is executed in atomic context so that
+ * do_page_fault() doesn't attempt to take mmap_sem. This makes
+ * probe_kernel_address() suitable for use within regions where the caller
+ * already holds mmap_sem, or other locks which nest inside mmap_sem.
+ * This must be a macro because __get_user() needs to know the types of the
+ * args.
+ *
+ * We don't include enough header files to be able to do the set_fs(). We
+ * require that the probe_kernel_address() caller will do that.
+ */
+#define probe_kernel_address(addr, retval) \
+ ({ \
+ long ret; \
+ mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs(); \
+ \
+ set_fs(KERNEL_DS); \
+ pagefault_disable(); \
+ ret = __copy_from_user_inatomic(&(retval), (__force typeof(retval) __user *)(addr), sizeof(retval)); \
+ pagefault_enable(); \
+ set_fs(old_fs); \
+ ret; \
+ })
+
+/*
+ * probe_kernel_read(): safely attempt to read from a location
+ * @dst: pointer to the buffer that shall take the data
+ * @src: address to read from
+ * @size: size of the data chunk
+ *
+ * Safely read from address @src to the buffer at @dst. If a kernel fault
+ * happens, handle that and return -EFAULT.
+ */
+extern long probe_kernel_read(void *dst, const void *src, size_t size);
+extern long __probe_kernel_read(void *dst, const void *src, size_t size);
+
+/*
+ * probe_kernel_write(): safely attempt to write to a location
+ * @dst: address to write to
+ * @src: pointer to the data that shall be written
+ * @size: size of the data chunk
+ *
+ * Safely write to address @dst from the buffer at @src. If a kernel fault
+ * happens, handle that and return -EFAULT.
+ */
+extern long notrace probe_kernel_write(void *dst, const void *src, size_t size);
+extern long notrace __probe_kernel_write(void *dst, const void *src, size_t size);
+
+#endif /* __LINUX_UACCESS_H__ */