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
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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