kernel: kmem_ptr_validate considered harmful

This is a nasty and error prone API. It is no longer used, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 73dac81e9f78..f126975ef23e 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -186,27 +186,6 @@ void kzfree(const void *p)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzfree);
 
-int kern_ptr_validate(const void *ptr, unsigned long size)
-{
-        unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)ptr;
-        unsigned long min_addr = PAGE_OFFSET;
-        unsigned long align_mask = sizeof(void *) - 1;
-
-        if (unlikely(addr < min_addr))
-                goto out;
-        if (unlikely(addr > (unsigned long)high_memory - size))
-                goto out;
-        if (unlikely(addr & align_mask))
-                goto out;
-        if (unlikely(!kern_addr_valid(addr)))
-                goto out;
-        if (unlikely(!kern_addr_valid(addr + size - 1)))
-                goto out;
-        return 1;
-out:
-        return 0;
-}
-
 /*
  * strndup_user - duplicate an existing string from user space
  * @s: The string to duplicate