linux-stable.git/arch/um/kernel/maccess.c, branch master

um: remove copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed

2025-03-18T10:03:29+00:00

There is no need to override the default version of this function
anymore as UML now has proper _nofault memory access functions.

Doing this also fixes the fact that the implementation was incorrect as
using mincore() will incorrectly flag pages as inaccessible if they were
swapped out by the host.

Fixes: f75b1b1bedfb ("um: Implement probe_kernel_read()")
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250210160926.420133-3-benjamin@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

maccess: rename probe_kernel_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault

2020-06-17T17:57:41+00:00

Better describe what these functions do.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

maccess: always use strict semantics for probe_kernel_read

2020-06-09T16:39:15+00:00

Except for historical confusion in the kprobes/uprobes and bpf tracers,
which has been fixed now, there is no good reason to ever allow user
memory accesses from probe_kernel_read.  Switch probe_kernel_read to only
read from kernel memory.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update it for "mm, dump_page(): do not crash with invalid mapping pointer"]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521152301.2587579-17-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

maccess: unify the probe kernel arch hooks

2020-06-09T16:39:15+00:00

Currently architectures have to override every routine that probes
kernel memory, which includes a pure read and strcpy, both in strict
and not strict variants.  Just provide a single arch hooks instead to
make sure all architectures cover all the cases.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix !CONFIG_X86_64 build]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521152301.2587579-11-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500

2019-06-19T15:09:55+00:00

Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation #

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt 
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart 
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal 
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

um: Implement probe_kernel_read()

2013-09-07T08:38:34+00:00

UML needs it's own probe_kernel_read() to handle kernel
mode faults correctly.
The implementation uses mincore() on the host side to detect
whether a page is owned by the UML kernel process.

This fixes also a possible crash when sysrq-t is used.
Starting with 3.10 sysrq-t calls probe_kernel_read() to
read details from the kernel workers. As kernel worker are
completely async pointers may turn NULL while reading them.

Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc:  # 3.10.x
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger