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Revision fc1c183353a113c71675fecd0485e5aa0fe68d72 authored by Pekka Enberg on 07 April 2010, 16:23:40 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 09 April 2010, 17:09:50 UTC 
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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