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Commit 3c93ca00 authored by Frederic Weisbecker's avatar Frederic Weisbecker Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86: Add missing might_fault() checks to copy_{to,from}_user()



On x86-64, copy_[to|from]_user() rely on assembly routines that
never call might_fault(), making us missing various lockdep
checks.

This doesn't apply to __copy_from,to_user() that explicitly
handle these calls, neither is it a problem in x86-32 where
copy_to,from_user() rely on the "__" prefixed versions that
also call might_fault().

Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1258382538-30979-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
[ v2: fix module export ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 14722485
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