[RFC PATCH stable 5.4 5/8] maccess: rename strncpy_from_unsafe_user to strncpy_from_user_nofault

Jiri Olsa jolsa at kernel.org
Mon May 22 13:33:49 PDT 2023


From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

commit bd88bb5d4007949be7154deae7cef7173c751a95 upstream.

[Missing bpf_trace.c hunk due to not backported changes]

This matches the naming of strncpy_from_user, and also makes it more
clear what the function is supposed to do.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast at kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel at iogearbox.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521152301.2587579-7-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
---
 include/linux/uaccess.h     | 4 ++--
 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 2 +-
 mm/maccess.c                | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/uaccess.h b/include/linux/uaccess.h
index 25ae650dcb1a..23bda5df4c08 100644
--- a/include/linux/uaccess.h
+++ b/include/linux/uaccess.h
@@ -358,8 +358,8 @@ extern long strncpy_from_unsafe(char *dst, const void *unsafe_addr, long count);
 extern long strncpy_from_unsafe_strict(char *dst, const void *unsafe_addr,
 				       long count);
 extern long __strncpy_from_unsafe(char *dst, const void *unsafe_addr, long count);
-extern long strncpy_from_unsafe_user(char *dst, const void __user *unsafe_addr,
-				     long count);
+long strncpy_from_user_nofault(char *dst, const void __user *unsafe_addr,
+		long count);
 extern long strnlen_unsafe_user(const void __user *unsafe_addr, long count);
 
 /**
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index a422cf6a0358..d6ba4f6bed73 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@ fetch_store_string_user(unsigned long addr, void *dest, void *base)
 
 	__dest = get_loc_data(dest, base);
 
-	ret = strncpy_from_unsafe_user(__dest, uaddr, maxlen);
+	ret = strncpy_from_user_nofault(__dest, uaddr, maxlen);
 	if (ret >= 0)
 		*(u32 *)dest = make_data_loc(ret, __dest - base);
 
diff --git a/mm/maccess.c b/mm/maccess.c
index d263c7b5e4eb..8e4d564b6c25 100644
--- a/mm/maccess.c
+++ b/mm/maccess.c
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ long __strncpy_from_unsafe(char *dst, const void *unsafe_addr, long count)
 }
 
 /**
- * strncpy_from_unsafe_user: - Copy a NUL terminated string from unsafe user
+ * strncpy_from_user_nofault: - Copy a NUL terminated string from unsafe user
  *				address.
  * @dst:   Destination address, in kernel space.  This buffer must be at
  *         least @count bytes long.
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ long __strncpy_from_unsafe(char *dst, const void *unsafe_addr, long count)
  * If @count is smaller than the length of the string, copies @count-1 bytes,
  * sets the last byte of @dst buffer to NUL and returns @count.
  */
-long strncpy_from_unsafe_user(char *dst, const void __user *unsafe_addr,
+long strncpy_from_user_nofault(char *dst, const void __user *unsafe_addr,
 			      long count)
 {
 	mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs();
-- 
2.40.1




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