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authorReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@linux.intel.com>2006-10-11 12:21:55 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-11 22:14:22 +0400
commit01a3ee2b203e511e20f98b85a9172fd32c53e87c (patch)
tree0dd90d81dc86f231828af23bdb97522405b06cab /include/linux/bitmap.h
parent39484e53bb00f55b6303a908070db133608ef2a5 (diff)
downloadlinux-01a3ee2b203e511e20f98b85a9172fd32c53e87c.tar.xz
[PATCH] bitmap: parse input from kernel and user buffers
lib/bitmap.c:bitmap_parse() is a library function that received as input a user buffer. This seemed to have originated from the way the write_proc function of the /proc filesystem operates. This has been reworked to not use kmalloc and eliminates a lot of get_user() overhead by performing one access_ok before using __get_user(). We need to test if we are in kernel or user space (is_user) and access the buffer differently. We cannot use __get_user() to access kernel addresses in all cases, for example in architectures with separate address space for kernel and user. This function will be useful for other uses as well; for example, taking input for /sysfs instead of /proc, so it was changed to accept kernel buffers. We have this use for the Linux UWB project, as part as the upcoming bandwidth allocator code. Only a few routines used this function and they were changed too. Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/bitmap.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/bitmap.h13
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/bitmap.h b/include/linux/bitmap.h
index dcc5de7cc487..64b4641904fe 100644
--- a/include/linux/bitmap.h
+++ b/include/linux/bitmap.h
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@
* bitmap_remap(dst, src, old, new, nbits) *dst = map(old, new)(src)
* bitmap_bitremap(oldbit, old, new, nbits) newbit = map(old, new)(oldbit)
* bitmap_scnprintf(buf, len, src, nbits) Print bitmap src to buf
- * bitmap_parse(ubuf, ulen, dst, nbits) Parse bitmap dst from user buf
+ * bitmap_parse(buf, buflen, dst, nbits) Parse bitmap dst from kernel buf
+ * bitmap_parse_user(ubuf, ulen, dst, nbits) Parse bitmap dst from user buf
* bitmap_scnlistprintf(buf, len, src, nbits) Print bitmap src as list to buf
* bitmap_parselist(buf, dst, nbits) Parse bitmap dst from list
* bitmap_find_free_region(bitmap, bits, order) Find and allocate bit region
@@ -106,7 +107,9 @@ extern int __bitmap_weight(const unsigned long *bitmap, int bits);
extern int bitmap_scnprintf(char *buf, unsigned int len,
const unsigned long *src, int nbits);
-extern int bitmap_parse(const char __user *ubuf, unsigned int ulen,
+extern int __bitmap_parse(const char *buf, unsigned int buflen, int is_user,
+ unsigned long *dst, int nbits);
+extern int bitmap_parse_user(const char __user *ubuf, unsigned int ulen,
unsigned long *dst, int nbits);
extern int bitmap_scnlistprintf(char *buf, unsigned int len,
const unsigned long *src, int nbits);
@@ -270,6 +273,12 @@ static inline void bitmap_shift_left(unsigned long *dst,
__bitmap_shift_left(dst, src, n, nbits);
}
+static inline int bitmap_parse(const char *buf, unsigned int buflen,
+ unsigned long *maskp, int nmaskbits)
+{
+ return __bitmap_parse(buf, buflen, 0, maskp, nmaskbits);
+}
+
#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
#endif /* __LINUX_BITMAP_H */