x86: mm: remove architecture-specific 'access_ok()' define
There's already a generic definition of 'access_ok()' in the asm-generic/access_ok.h header file, and the only difference bwteen that and the x86-specific one is the added check for WARN_ON_IN_IRQ(). And it turns out that the reason for that check is long gone: it used to use a "user_addr_max()" inline function that depended on the current thread, and caused problems in non-thread contexts. For details, see commits 7c478895 ("x86/uaccess, sched/preempt: Verify access_ok() context") and in particular commit ae31fe51 ("perf/x86: Restore TASK_SIZE check on frame pointer") about how and why this came to be. But that "current task" issue was removed in the big set_fs() removal by Christoph Hellwig in commit 47058bb5 ("x86: remove address space overrides using set_fs()"). So the reason for the test and the architecture-specific access_ok() define no longer exists, and is actually harmful these days. For example, it led various 'copy_from_user_nmi()' games (eg using __range_not_ok() instead, and then later converted to __access_ok() when that became ok). And that in turn meant that LAM was broken for the frame following before this series, because __access_ok() used to not do the address untagging. Accessing user state still needs care in many contexts, but access_ok() is not the place for this test. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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