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The __range_not_ok() helper is an x86 (and sparc64) specific interface that does roughly the same thing as __access_ok(), but with different calling conventions. Change this to use the normal interface in order for consistency as we clean up all access_ok() implementations. This changes the limit from TASK_SIZE to TASK_SIZE_MAX, which Al points out is the right thing do do here anyway. The callers have to use __access_ok() instead of the normal access_ok() though, because on x86 that contains a WARN_ON_IN_IRQ() check that cannot be used inside of NMI context while tracing. The check in copy_code() is not needed any more, because this one is already done by copy_from_user_nmi(). Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YgsUKcXGR7r4nINj@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk/ Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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