From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 16:23:40 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: slab: Generify kernel pointer validation
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.34-rc4~15
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fc1c183353a113c71675fecd0485e5aa0fe68d72;p=pandora-kernel.git

slab: Generify kernel pointer validation

As suggested by Linus, introduce a kern_ptr_validate() helper that does some
sanity checks to make sure a pointer is a valid kernel pointer.  This is a
preparational step for fixing SLUB kmem_ptr_validate().

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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