Re: [PATCH] mm: remove kern_addr_valid() completely
From: Heiko Carstens
Date: Tue Oct 18 2022 - 04:05:36 EST
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 03:40:14PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> Most architectures(except arm64/x86/sparc) simply return 1 for
> kern_addr_valid(), which is only used in read_kcore(), and it
> calls copy_from_kernel_nofault() which could check whether the
> address is a valid kernel address, so no need kern_addr_valid(),
> let's remove unneeded kern_addr_valid() completely.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
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> arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 -
For s390:
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>