Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function

Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/arch/nios2/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/nios2/include/asm/uaccess.h
index dfa3c7cb30b47..e0ea10806491f 100644
--- a/arch/nios2/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/nios2/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 	(((signed long)(((long)get_fs().seg) &	\
 		((long)(addr) | (((long)(addr)) + (len)) | (len)))) == 0)
 
-#define access_ok(type, addr, len)		\
+#define access_ok(addr, len)		\
 	likely(__access_ok((unsigned long)(addr), (unsigned long)(len)))
 
 # define __EX_TABLE_SECTION	".section __ex_table,\"a\"\n"
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static inline unsigned long __must_check __clear_user(void __user *to,
 static inline unsigned long __must_check clear_user(void __user *to,
 						    unsigned long n)
 {
-	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, to, n))
+	if (!access_ok(to, n))
 		return n;
 	return __clear_user(to, n);
 }
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ do {									\
 	long __gu_err = -EFAULT;					\
 	const __typeof__(*(ptr)) __user *__gu_ptr = (ptr);		\
 	unsigned long __gu_val = 0;					\
-	if (access_ok(VERIFY_READ,  __gu_ptr, sizeof(*__gu_ptr)))	\
+	if (access_ok( __gu_ptr, sizeof(*__gu_ptr)))	\
 		__get_user_common(__gu_val, sizeof(*__gu_ptr),		\
 			__gu_ptr, __gu_err);				\
 	(x) = (__force __typeof__(x))__gu_val;				\
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ do {									\
 	long __pu_err = -EFAULT;					\
 	__typeof__(*(ptr)) __user *__pu_ptr = (ptr);			\
 	__typeof__(*(ptr)) __pu_val = (__typeof(*ptr))(x);		\
-	if (access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, __pu_ptr, sizeof(*__pu_ptr))) {	\
+	if (access_ok(__pu_ptr, sizeof(*__pu_ptr))) {	\
 		switch (sizeof(*__pu_ptr)) {				\
 		case 1:							\
 			__put_user_asm(__pu_val, "stb", __pu_ptr, __pu_err); \
diff --git a/arch/nios2/kernel/signal.c b/arch/nios2/kernel/signal.c
index 20662b0f6c9e3..4a81876b6086e 100644
--- a/arch/nios2/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/nios2/kernel/signal.c
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ asmlinkage int do_rt_sigreturn(struct switch_stack *sw)
 	sigset_t set;
 	int rval;
 
-	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, frame, sizeof(*frame)))
+	if (!access_ok(frame, sizeof(*frame)))
 		goto badframe;
 
 	if (__copy_from_user(&set, &frame->uc.uc_sigmask, sizeof(set)))