From fc1c183353a113c71675fecd0485e5aa0fe68d72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 19:23:40 +0300
Subject: slab: Generify kernel pointer validation

As suggested by Linus, introduce a kern_ptr_validate() helper that does some
sanity checks to make sure a pointer is a valid kernel pointer.  This is a
preparational step for fixing SLUB kmem_ptr_validate().

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 include/linux/slab.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

(limited to 'include')

diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 4884462..49d1247 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ int kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *);
 void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *, void *);
 unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *);
 const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_cache *);
+int kern_ptr_validate(const void *ptr, unsigned long size);
 int kmem_ptr_validate(struct kmem_cache *cachep, const void *ptr);
 
 /*
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