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Al Viro c693cc4676 saner calling conventions for csum_and_copy_..._user()
All callers of these primitives will
	* discard anything we might've copied in case of error
	* ignore the csum value in case of error
	* always pass 0xffffffff as the initial sum, so the
resulting csum value (in case of success, that is) will never be 0.

That suggest the following calling conventions:
	* don't pass err_ptr - just return 0 on error.
	* don't bother with zeroing destination, etc. in case of error
	* don't pass the initial sum - just use 0xffffffff.

This commit does the minimal conversion in the instances of csum_and_copy_...();
the changes of actual asm code behind them are done later in the series.
Note that this asm code is often shared with csum_partial_copy_nocheck();
the difference is that csum_partial_copy_nocheck() passes 0 for initial
sum while csum_and_copy_..._user() pass 0xffffffff.  Fortunately, we are
free to pass 0xffffffff in all cases and subsequent patches will use that
freedom without any special comments.

A part that could be split off: parisc and uml/i386 claimed to have
csum_and_copy_to_user() instances of their own, but those were identical
to the generic one, so we simply drop them.  Not sure if it's worth
a separate commit...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-08-20 15:45:15 -04:00
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asm saner calling conventions for csum_and_copy_..._user() 2020-08-20 15:45:15 -04:00
uapi/asm mm: introduce MADV_PAGEOUT 2019-09-25 17:51:41 -07:00