Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core-v2

Merge reason: we have gathered quite a few conflicts, need to merge upstream

Conflicts:
	arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
	arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
	arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
	arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
	arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
	arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c
	include/linux/sched.h
	kernel/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 37eaccdf3054..7c122e49f769 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -70,6 +70,36 @@ void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup);
 
 /**
+ * memdup_user - duplicate memory region from user space
+ *
+ * @src: source address in user space
+ * @len: number of bytes to copy
+ *
+ * Returns an ERR_PTR() on failure.
+ */
+void *memdup_user(const void __user *src, size_t len)
+{
+	void *p;
+
+	/*
+	 * Always use GFP_KERNEL, since copy_from_user() can sleep and
+	 * cause pagefault, which makes it pointless to use GFP_NOFS
+	 * or GFP_ATOMIC.
+	 */
+	p = kmalloc_track_caller(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!p)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+	if (copy_from_user(p, src, len)) {
+		kfree(p);
+		return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
+	}
+
+	return p;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(memdup_user);
+
+/**
  * __krealloc - like krealloc() but don't free @p.
  * @p: object to reallocate memory for.
  * @new_size: how many bytes of memory are required.