summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/include/linux/kexec.h
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>2014-08-08 14:25:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-08 15:57:32 -0700
commit815d5704a337a662bf960757edbff7a0680d40fd (patch)
tree54d34d4c4e345e1cfe583c81e3ad4fb585006779 /include/linux/kexec.h
parent8c86e70acead629aacb4afcd818add66bf6844d9 (diff)
kexec: make kexec_segment user buffer pointer a union
So far kexec_segment->buf was always a user space pointer as user space passed the array of kexec_segment structures and kernel copied it. But with new system call, list of kexec segments will be prepared by kernel and kexec_segment->buf will point to a kernel memory. So while I was adding code where I made assumption that ->buf is pointing to kernel memory, sparse started giving warning. Make ->buf a union. And where a user space pointer is expected, access it using ->buf and where a kernel space pointer is expected, access it using ->kbuf. That takes care of sparse warnings. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kexec.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kexec.h13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kexec.h b/include/linux/kexec.h
index d9bb0a57d208..66d56ac0f64c 100644
--- a/include/linux/kexec.h
+++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
@@ -69,7 +69,18 @@ typedef unsigned long kimage_entry_t;
#define IND_SOURCE 0x8
struct kexec_segment {
- void __user *buf;
+ /*
+ * This pointer can point to user memory if kexec_load() system
+ * call is used or will point to kernel memory if
+ * kexec_file_load() system call is used.
+ *
+ * Use ->buf when expecting to deal with user memory and use ->kbuf
+ * when expecting to deal with kernel memory.
+ */
+ union {
+ void __user *buf;
+ void *kbuf;
+ };
size_t bufsz;
unsigned long mem;
size_t memsz;