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Gerald Schaefer
59f35d53fd [S390] Add dynamic size check for usercopy functions.
Use a wrapper for copy_to/from_user to chose the best usercopy method.
The mvcos instruction is better for sizes greater than 256 bytes, if
mvcos is not available a page table walk is better for sizes greater
than 1024 bytes. Also removed the redundant copy_to/from_user_std_small
functions.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-12-04 15:40:45 +01:00
Martin Schwidefsky
52149ba6b0 [S390] user readable uninitialised kernel memory.
A user space program can read uninitialised kernel memory
by appending to a file from a bad address and then reading
the result back. The cause is the copy_from_user function
that does not clear the remaining bytes of the kernel
buffer after it got a fault on the user space address.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-28 16:56:03 +02:00
Gerald Schaefer
6c2a9e6df6 [S390] Use alternative user-copy operations for new hardware.
This introduces new user-copy operations which are optimized for
copying more than 256 Bytes on new hardware.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:59:44 +02:00