[dm-devel] [PATCH 1/4] uio: remove copy_from_iter_flushcache() and copy_mc_to_iter()

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Wed Dec 15 08:45:05 UTC 2021


These two wrappers are never used.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
---
 drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c |  4 +---
 include/linux/uio.h   | 20 +-------------------
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
index 4190c8c46ca88..d225bcfa67cf9 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
@@ -302,9 +302,7 @@ static long pmem_dax_direct_access(struct dax_device *dax_dev,
 }
 
 /*
- * Use the 'no check' versions of copy_from_iter_flushcache() and
- * copy_mc_to_iter() to bypass HARDENED_USERCOPY overhead. Bounds
- * checking, both file offset and device offset, is handled by
+ * Bounds checking, both file offset and device offset, is handled by
  * dax_iomap_actor()
  */
 static size_t pmem_copy_from_iter(struct dax_device *dax_dev, pgoff_t pgoff,
diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h
index 6350354f97e90..494d552c1d663 100644
--- a/include/linux/uio.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio.h
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ bool copy_from_iter_full_nocache(void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE
 /*
  * Note, users like pmem that depend on the stricter semantics of
- * copy_from_iter_flushcache() than copy_from_iter_nocache() must check for
+ * _copy_from_iter_flushcache() than _copy_from_iter_nocache() must check for
  * IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE) before assuming that the
  * destination is flushed from the cache on return.
  */
@@ -211,24 +211,6 @@ size_t _copy_mc_to_iter(const void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i);
 #define _copy_mc_to_iter _copy_to_iter
 #endif
 
-static __always_inline __must_check
-size_t copy_from_iter_flushcache(void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)
-{
-	if (unlikely(!check_copy_size(addr, bytes, false)))
-		return 0;
-	else
-		return _copy_from_iter_flushcache(addr, bytes, i);
-}
-
-static __always_inline __must_check
-size_t copy_mc_to_iter(void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)
-{
-	if (unlikely(!check_copy_size(addr, bytes, true)))
-		return 0;
-	else
-		return _copy_mc_to_iter(addr, bytes, i);
-}
-
 size_t iov_iter_zero(size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *);
 unsigned long iov_iter_alignment(const struct iov_iter *i);
 unsigned long iov_iter_gap_alignment(const struct iov_iter *i);
-- 
2.30.2




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