Re: rename probe_kernel_* and probe_user_*

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On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:38 AM Christoph Hellwig [off-list ref] wrote:

Andrew and I decided to drop the patches implementing your suggested
rename of the probe_kernel_* and probe_user_* helpers from -mm as there
were way to many conflicts.  After -rc1 might be a good time for this as
all the conflicts are resolved now.

So I've merged this renaming now, together with my changes to make
'get_kernel_nofault()' look and act a lot more like 'get_user()'.

It just felt wrong (and potentially dangerous) to me to have a
'get_kernel_nofault()' naming that implied semantics that we're all
familiar with from 'get_user()', but acting very differently.

But part of the fixups I made for the type checking are for
architectures where I didn't even compile-test the end result. I
looked at every case individually, and the patch looks sane, but I
could have screwed something up.

Basically, 'get_kernel_nofault()' doesn't do the same automagic type
munging from the pointer to the target that 'get_user()' does, but at
least now it checks that the types are superficially compatible.
There should be build failures if they aren't, but I hopefully fixed
everything up properly for all architectures.

This email is partly to ask people to double-check, but partly just as
a heads-up so that _if_ I screwed something up, you'll have the
background and it won't take you by surprise.

               Linus