Previouly drivers have their own way of mapping range of kernel pages/memory into user vma and this was done by invoking vm_insert_page() within a loop. As this pattern is common across different drivers, it can be generalized by creating new functions and use it across the drivers. vm_insert_range() is the API which could be used to mapped kernel memory/pages in drivers which has considered vm_pgoff vm_insert_range_buggy() is the API which could be used to map range of kernel memory/pages in drivers which has not considered vm_pgoff. vm_pgoff is passed default as 0 for those drivers. We _could_ then at a later "fix" these drivers which are using vm_insert_range_buggy() to behave according to the normal vm_pgoff offsetting simply by removing the _buggy suffix on the function name and if that causes regressions, it gives us an easy way to revert. There is an existing bug in [7/9], where user passed length is not verified against object_count. For any value of length > object_count it will end up overrun page array which could lead to a potential bug. This is fixed as part of these conversion. Souptick Joarder (9): mm: Introduce new vm_insert_range and vm_insert_range_buggy API arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c: Convert to use vm_insert_range drivers/firewire/core-iso.c: Convert to use vm_insert_range_buggy drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_gem.c: Convert to use vm_insert_range drm/xen/xen_drm_front_gem.c: Convert to use vm_insert_range iommu/dma-iommu.c: Convert to use vm_insert_range videobuf2/videobuf2-dma-sg.c: Convert to use vm_insert_range_buggy xen/gntdev.c: Convert to use vm_insert_range xen/privcmd-buf.c: Convert to use vm_insert_range_buggy arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c | 22 ++---- drivers/firewire/core-iso.c | 15 +---- drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_gem.c | 17 +---- drivers/gpu/drm/xen/xen_drm_front_gem.c | 18 ++--- drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c | 12 +--- drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-dma-sg.c | 22 ++---- drivers/xen/gntdev.c | 16 ++--- drivers/xen/privcmd-buf.c | 8 +-- include/linux/mm.h | 4 ++ mm/memory.c | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++ mm/nommu.c | 14 ++++ 11 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 100 deletions(-) -- 1.9.1
