From 736706bee3298208343a76096370e4f6a5c55915 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 10:39:05 -0800 Subject: 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 Inspired-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/arm/kernel/process.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/arm/kernel') diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c index 16601d1442d1..72cc0862a30e 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ void __show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs) if ((domain & domain_mask(DOMAIN_USER)) == domain_val(DOMAIN_USER, DOMAIN_NOACCESS)) segment = "none"; - else if (fs == get_ds()) + else if (fs == KERNEL_DS) segment = "kernel"; else segment = "user"; -- cgit v1.2.3