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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: x86@kernel.org, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 05/18] maccess: update the top of file comment
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 18:00:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200513160038.2482415-6-hch@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200513160038.2482415-1-hch@lst.de>

This file now also contains several helpers for accessing user memory.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 mm/maccess.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/maccess.c b/mm/maccess.c
index 747581ac50dc9..65880ba2ca376 100644
--- a/mm/maccess.c
+++ b/mm/maccess.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
 /*
- * Access kernel memory without faulting.
+ * Access kernel or user memory without faulting.
  */
 #include <linux/export.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
-- 
2.26.2


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-13 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-13 16:00 clean up and streamline probe_kernel_* and friends v2 Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 01/18] maccess: unexport probe_kernel_write and probe_user_write Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 02/18] maccess: remove various unused weak aliases Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 03/18] maccess: remove duplicate kerneldoc comments Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 04/18] maccess: clarify " Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 16:00 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-05-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 06/18] maccess: rename strncpy_from_unsafe_user to strncpy_from_user_nofault Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 07/18] maccess: rename strncpy_from_unsafe_strict to strncpy_from_kernel_nofault Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 08/18] maccess: rename strnlen_unsafe_user to strnlen_user_nofault Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 09/18] maccess: remove probe_read_common and probe_write_common Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 10/18] maccess: unify the probe kernel arch hooks Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-14  1:13   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-05-19  5:46     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 11/18] maccess: remove strncpy_from_unsafe Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 19:11   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-13 19:11     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-13 19:28     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 22:36       ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-05-13 23:03         ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-13 23:03           ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-13 23:24           ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-05-13 23:20         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-05-13 23:59           ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-13 23:59             ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-14  1:00             ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-05-14  2:43               ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-14  2:43                 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-14  9:44                 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-05-14 10:27                   ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-05-13 23:28         ` Al Viro
2020-05-13 23:58           ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-05-14 10:01             ` David Laight
2020-05-14 10:21               ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-05-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 12/18] maccess: always use strict semantics for probe_kernel_read Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 13/18] maccess: move user access routines together Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 14/18] maccess: allow architectures to provide kernel probing directly Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 19:36   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-13 19:36     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-13 19:40     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 19:48       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-13 19:48         ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-13 19:54         ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-16  3:42   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-05-18 15:09     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 15/18] x86: use non-set_fs based maccess routines Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 16/18] maccess: rename probe_kernel_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 17/18] maccess: rename probe_user_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_user_nofault Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 18/18] maccess: rename probe_kernel_address to get_kernel_nofault Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-13 19:37 ` clean up and streamline probe_kernel_* and friends v2 Linus Torvalds
2020-05-13 19:37   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-13 23:04 ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-05-13 23:20   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-13 23:20     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-19  5:50   ` Christoph Hellwig

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