The patch titled
Remove a couple final references to obsolete verify_area()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
remove-a-couple-final-references-to-obsolete-verify_area.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: Remove a couple final references to obsolete verify_area()
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Remove a couple final references to the obsolete verify_area() call, which
was long ago replaced by access_ok().
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
include/asm-avr32/checksum.h | 2 +-
include/asm-avr32/uaccess.h | 6 ------
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff -puN include/asm-avr32/checksum.h~remove-a-couple-final-references-to-obsolete-verify_area include/asm-avr32/checksum.h
--- a/include/asm-avr32/checksum.h~remove-a-couple-final-references-to-obsolete-verify_area
+++ a/include/asm-avr32/checksum.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ __wsum csum_partial_copy_generic(const v
* passed in an incorrect kernel address to one of these functions.
*
* If you use these functions directly please don't forget the
- * verify_area().
+ * access_ok().
*/
static inline
__wsum csum_partial_copy_nocheck(const void *src, void *dst,
diff -puN include/asm-avr32/uaccess.h~remove-a-couple-final-references-to-obsolete-verify_area include/asm-avr32/uaccess.h
--- a/include/asm-avr32/uaccess.h~remove-a-couple-final-references-to-obsolete-verify_area
+++ a/include/asm-avr32/uaccess.h
@@ -68,12 +68,6 @@ static inline void set_fs(mm_segment_t s
#define access_ok(type, addr, size) (likely(__range_ok(addr, size) == 0))
-static inline int
-verify_area(int type, const void __user *addr, unsigned long size)
-{
- return access_ok(type, addr, size) ? 0 : -EFAULT;
-}
-
/* Generic arbitrary sized copy. Return the number of bytes NOT copied */
extern __kernel_size_t __copy_user(void *to, const void *from,
__kernel_size_t n);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
git-alsa.patch
ppc-use-syslog-macro-for-the-printk-log-level.patch
rewrite-unnecessary-duplicated-code-to-use-field_sizeof.patch
transform-kmem_cache_allocmemset0-kmem_cache_zalloc.patch
get-rid-of-double-zeroing-of-allocated-pages.patch
remove-unnecessary-memset0-calls-after-kzalloc-calls.patch
discuss-a-couple-common-errors-in-kernel-doc-usage.patch
numerous-fixes-to-kernel-doc-info-in-source-files.patch
remove-a-couple-final-references-to-obsolete-verify_area.patch
oss-replace-kmallocmemset-combos-with-kzalloc.patch
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