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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-03-04 10:39:05 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-03-04 10:50:14 -0800
commit736706bee3298208343a76096370e4f6a5c55915 (patch)
tree3e90fd9d540cb15ac671182d52f9a4ade8657c59 /drivers
parent84c4e1f89fefe70554da0ab33be72c9be7994379 (diff)
downloadlinux-736706bee3298208343a76096370e4f6a5c55915.tar.bz2
get rid of legacy 'get_ds()' function
Every in-kernel use of this function defined it to KERNEL_DS (either as an actual define, or as an inline function). It's an entirely historical artifact, and long long long ago used to actually read the segment selector valueof '%ds' on x86. Which in the kernel is always KERNEL_DS. Inspired by a patch from Jann Horn that just did this for a very small subset of users (the ones in fs/), along with Al who suggested a script. I then just took it to the logical extreme and removed all the remaining gunk. Roughly scripted with git grep -l '(get_ds())' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i 's/(get_ds())/(KERNEL_DS)/' git grep -lw 'get_ds' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i '/^#define get_ds()/d' plus manual fixups to remove a few unusual usage patterns, the couple of inline function cases and to fix up a comment that had become stale. The 'get_ds()' function remains in an x86 kvm selftest, since in user space it actually does something relevant. Inspired-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Inspired-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c
index e14d7cc411c9..73b87da15eb2 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ static int isFileReadable(char *path)
ret = PTR_ERR(fp);
}
else {
- oldfs = get_fs(); set_fs(get_ds());
+ oldfs = get_fs(); set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
if (1!=readFile(fp, &buf, 1))
ret = -EINVAL;
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ static int retriveFromFile(char *path, u8 *buf, u32 sz)
if (0 == (ret =openFile(&fp, path, O_RDONLY, 0))) {
DBG_871X("%s openFile path:%s fp =%p\n", __func__, path , fp);
- oldfs = get_fs(); set_fs(get_ds());
+ oldfs = get_fs(); set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
ret =readFile(fp, buf, sz);
set_fs(oldfs);
closeFile(fp);