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+/*
+ * User address space access functions.
+ *
+ * For licencing details see kernel-base/COPYING
+ */
+
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/export.h>
+#include <linux/instrumented.h>
+
+#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
+
+/**
+ * copy_from_user_nmi - NMI safe copy from user
+ * @to: Pointer to the destination buffer
+ * @from: Pointer to a user space address of the current task
+ * @n: Number of bytes to copy
+ *
+ * Returns: The number of not copied bytes. 0 is success, i.e. all bytes copied
+ *
+ * Contrary to other copy_from_user() variants this function can be called
+ * from NMI context. Despite the name it is not restricted to be called
+ * from NMI context. It is safe to be called from any other context as
+ * well. It disables pagefaults across the copy which means a fault will
+ * abort the copy.
+ *
+ * For NMI context invocations this relies on the nested NMI work to allow
+ * atomic faults from the NMI path; the nested NMI paths are careful to
+ * preserve CR2.
+ */
+unsigned long
+copy_from_user_nmi(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
+{
+ unsigned long ret;
+
+ if (!__access_ok(from, n))
+ return n;
+
+ if (!nmi_uaccess_okay())
+ return n;
+
+ /*
+ * Even though this function is typically called from NMI/IRQ context
+ * disable pagefaults so that its behaviour is consistent even when
+ * called from other contexts.
+ */
+ pagefault_disable();
+ instrument_copy_from_user_before(to, from, n);
+ ret = raw_copy_from_user(to, from, n);
+ instrument_copy_from_user_after(to, from, n, ret);
+ pagefault_enable();
+
+ return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(copy_from_user_nmi);