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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-03-04 10:39:05 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-03-04 10:50:14 -0800
commit736706bee3298208343a76096370e4f6a5c55915 (patch)
tree3e90fd9d540cb15ac671182d52f9a4ade8657c59 /arch/arm64
parent84c4e1f89fefe70554da0ab33be72c9be7994379 (diff)
downloadlinux-736706bee3298208343a76096370e4f6a5c55915.tar.gz
get rid of legacy 'get_ds()' function
Every in-kernel use of this function defined it to KERNEL_DS (either as
an actual define, or as an inline function).  It's an entirely
historical artifact, and long long long ago used to actually read the
segment selector valueof '%ds' on x86.

Which in the kernel is always KERNEL_DS.

Inspired by a patch from Jann Horn that just did this for a very small
subset of users (the ones in fs/), along with Al who suggested a script.
I then just took it to the logical extreme and removed all the remaining
gunk.

Roughly scripted with

   git grep -l '(get_ds())' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i 's/(get_ds())/(KERNEL_DS)/'
   git grep -lw 'get_ds' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i '/^#define get_ds()/d'

plus manual fixups to remove a few unusual usage patterns, the couple of
inline function cases and to fix up a comment that had become stale.

The 'get_ds()' function remains in an x86 kvm selftest, since in user
space it actually does something relevant.

Inspired-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Inspired-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
index 547d7a0c9d05..f1e5c9165809 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
 #include <asm/memory.h>
 #include <asm/extable.h>
 
-#define get_ds()	(KERNEL_DS)
 #define get_fs()	(current_thread_info()->addr_limit)
 
 static inline void set_fs(mm_segment_t fs)