[merged] maccess-remove-various-unused-weak-aliases.patch removed from -mm tree

[akpm@linux-foundation.org]

The patch titled
     Subject: maccess: remove various unused weak aliases
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     maccess-remove-various-unused-weak-aliases.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: maccess: remove various unused weak aliases

maccess tends to define lots of underscore prefixed symbols that then
have other weak aliases.  But except for two cases they are never
actually used, so remove them.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521152301.2587579-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 include/linux/uaccess.h |    3 ---
 mm/maccess.c            |   19 +++----------------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/uaccess.h~maccess-remove-various-unused-weak-aliases
+++ a/include/linux/uaccess.h
@@ -324,7 +324,6 @@ extern long __probe_kernel_read(void *ds
  * happens, handle that and return -EFAULT.
  */
 extern long probe_user_read(void *dst, const void __user *src, size_t size);
-extern long __probe_user_read(void *dst, const void __user *src, size_t size);
 
 /*
  * probe_kernel_write(): safely attempt to write to a location
@@ -336,7 +335,6 @@ extern long __probe_user_read(void *dst,
  * 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);
 
 /*
  * probe_user_write(): safely attempt to write to a location in user space
@@ -348,7 +346,6 @@ extern long notrace __probe_kernel_write
  * happens, handle that and return -EFAULT.
  */
 extern long notrace probe_user_write(void __user *dst, const void *src, size_t size);
-extern long notrace __probe_user_write(void __user *dst, const void *src, size_t size);
 
 extern long strncpy_from_unsafe(char *dst, const void *unsafe_addr, long count);
 extern long strncpy_from_unsafe_strict(char *dst, const void *unsafe_addr,
--- a/mm/maccess.c~maccess-remove-various-unused-weak-aliases
+++ a/mm/maccess.c
@@ -79,11 +79,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(probe_kernel_read);
  * Safely read from user address @src to the buffer at @dst. If a kernel fault
  * happens, handle that and return -EFAULT.
  */
-
-long __weak probe_user_read(void *dst, const void __user *src, size_t size)
-    __attribute__((alias("__probe_user_read")));
-
-long __probe_user_read(void *dst, const void __user *src, size_t size)
+long probe_user_read(void *dst, const void __user *src, size_t size)
 {
 	long ret = -EFAULT;
 	mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs();
@@ -106,11 +102,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(probe_user_read);
  * Safely write to address @dst from the buffer at @src.  If a kernel fault
  * happens, handle that and return -EFAULT.
  */
-
-long __weak probe_kernel_write(void *dst, const void *src, size_t size)
-    __attribute__((alias("__probe_kernel_write")));
-
-long __probe_kernel_write(void *dst, const void *src, size_t size)
+long probe_kernel_write(void *dst, const void *src, size_t size)
 {
 	long ret;
 	mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs();
@@ -131,11 +123,7 @@ long __probe_kernel_write(void *dst, con
  * Safely write to address @dst from the buffer at @src.  If a kernel fault
  * happens, handle that and return -EFAULT.
  */
-
-long __weak probe_user_write(void __user *dst, const void *src, size_t size)
-    __attribute__((alias("__probe_user_write")));
-
-long __probe_user_write(void __user *dst, const void *src, size_t size)
+long probe_user_write(void __user *dst, const void *src, size_t size)
 {
 	long ret = -EFAULT;
 	mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs();
@@ -172,7 +160,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(probe_user_write);
  * probing memory on a user address range where strncpy_from_unsafe_user() is
  * supposed to be used instead.
  */