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Message-Id: <20200513160038.2482415-4-hch@lst.de>
Date:   Wed, 13 May 2020 18:00:23 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     x86@...nel.org, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org, linux-um@...ts.infradead.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 03/18] maccess: remove duplicate kerneldoc comments

Many of the maccess routines have a copy of the kerneldoc comment
in the header.  Remove it as it is not useful and will get out of
sync sooner or later.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
---
 include/linux/uaccess.h | 38 --------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 38 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/uaccess.h b/include/linux/uaccess.h
index a2c606a403745..5a36a298a85f8 100644
--- a/include/linux/uaccess.h
+++ b/include/linux/uaccess.h
@@ -301,50 +301,12 @@ copy_struct_from_user(void *dst, size_t ksize, const void __user *src,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-/*
- * probe_kernel_read(): safely attempt to read from a location
- * @dst: pointer to the buffer that shall take the data
- * @src: address to read from
- * @size: size of the data chunk
- *
- * Safely read from address @src to the buffer at @dst.  If a kernel fault
- * happens, handle that and return -EFAULT.
- */
 extern long probe_kernel_read(void *dst, const void *src, size_t size);
 extern long probe_kernel_read_strict(void *dst, const void *src, size_t size);
 extern long __probe_kernel_read(void *dst, const void *src, size_t size);
-
-/*
- * probe_user_read(): safely attempt to read from a location in user space
- * @dst: pointer to the buffer that shall take the data
- * @src: address to read from
- * @size: size of the data chunk
- *
- * Safely read from address @src to the buffer at @dst.  If a kernel fault
- * happens, handle that and return -EFAULT.
- */
 extern long probe_user_read(void *dst, const void __user *src, size_t size);
 
-/*
- * probe_kernel_write(): safely attempt to write to a location
- * @dst: address to write to
- * @src: pointer to the data that shall be written
- * @size: size of the data chunk
- *
- * Safely write to address @dst from the buffer at @src.  If a kernel fault
- * happens, handle that and return -EFAULT.
- */
 extern long notrace probe_kernel_write(void *dst, const void *src, size_t size);
-
-/*
- * probe_user_write(): safely attempt to write to a location in user space
- * @dst: address to write to
- * @src: pointer to the data that shall be written
- * @size: size of the data chunk
- *
- * Safely write to address @dst from the buffer at @src.  If a kernel fault
- * happens, handle that and return -EFAULT.
- */
 extern long notrace probe_user_write(void __user *dst, const void *src, size_t size);
 
 extern long strncpy_from_unsafe(char *dst, const void *unsafe_addr, long count);
-- 
2.26.2

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