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, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 59260e21bdf5..fa9086647eb7 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -106,8 +106,6 @@ int kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *);
 void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *, void *);
 unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *);
 const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_cache *);
-int kern_ptr_validate(const void *ptr, unsigned long size);
-int kmem_ptr_validate(struct kmem_cache *cachep, const void *ptr);
 
 /*
  * Please use this macro to create slab caches. Simply specify the