/* * User address space access functions. * * For licencing details see kernel-base/COPYING */ #include #include #include #include /** * copy_from_user_nmi - NMI safe copy from user * @to: Pointer to the destination buffer * @from: Pointer to a user space address of the current task * @n: Number of bytes to copy * * Returns: The number of not copied bytes. 0 is success, i.e. all bytes copied * * Contrary to other copy_from_user() variants this function can be called * from NMI context. Despite the name it is not restricted to be called * from NMI context. It is safe to be called from any other context as * well. It disables pagefaults across the copy which means a fault will * abort the copy. * * For NMI context invocations this relies on the nested NMI work to allow * atomic faults from the NMI path; the nested NMI paths are careful to * preserve CR2. */ unsigned long copy_from_user_nmi(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n) { unsigned long ret; if (!__access_ok(from, n)) return n; if (!nmi_uaccess_okay()) return n; /* * Even though this function is typically called from NMI/IRQ context * disable pagefaults so that its behaviour is consistent even when * called from other contexts. */ pagefault_disable(); instrument_copy_from_user_before(to, from, n); ret = raw_copy_from_user(to, from, n); instrument_copy_from_user_after(to, from, n, ret); pagefault_enable(); return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(copy_from_user_nmi);