Re: [PATCH 1/2] vt: selection: allow functions to be called from inside kernel

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 08:45:29PM +0100, Okash Khawaja wrote:
> This patch breaks set_selection() into two functions so that when
> called from kernel, copy_from_user() can be avoided. It also exports
> set_selection() and paste_selection().
> 
> These changes are used the following patch where speakup's selection
> functionality calls into the above functions, thereby doing away with
> parallel implementation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Gregory Nowak <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/vt/selection.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  include/linux/selection.h  |  3 +--
>  2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
> index 07496c711d7d..a43f9cd9bdd6 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
> @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ void clear_selection(void)
>  		sel_start = -1;
>  	}
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clear_selection);
>  
>  /*
>   * User settable table: what characters are to be considered alphabetic?
> @@ -164,34 +165,42 @@ static int store_utf8(u32 c, char *p)
>   *	 a lot under the lock but its hardly a performance path
>   */
>  int set_selection(const struct tiocl_selection __user *sel, struct tty_struct *tty)
> +{
> +	struct tiocl_selection v;
> +
> +	if (copy_from_user(&v, sel, sizeof(*sel)))
> +		return -EFAULT;
> +
> +	return do_set_selection(&v, tty);
> +}
> +
> +int do_set_selection(struct tiocl_selection *v, struct tty_struct *tty)

I have no idea what the difference is between set_selection() and
do_set_selection() is now.  Naming is hard, I know :(

How about set_selection_kernel()?  set_selection_tiocl()?

Something to show that one takes a userspace pointer, and the other a
kernel pointer, how about:
	set_selection_user()
	set_selection_kernel()
making it more obvious?

thanks,

greg k-h