Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's incoming)

Quoth Andrew:

 - Most of MM.  Still waiting for the poweroc guys to get off their
   butts and review some threaded hugepages patches.

 - alpha

 - vfs bits

 - drivers/misc

 - a few core kerenl tweaks

 - printk() features

 - MAINTAINERS updates

 - backlight merge

 - leds merge

 - various lib/ updates

 - checkpatch updates

* akpm: (127 commits)
  epoll: fix spurious lockdep warnings
  checkpatch: add a --strict check for utf-8 in commit logs
  kernel.h/checkpatch: mark strict_strto<foo> and simple_strto<foo> as obsolete
  llist-return-whether-list-is-empty-before-adding-in-llist_add-fix
  wireless: at76c50x: follow rename pack_hex_byte to hex_byte_pack
  fat: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  security: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  lib: rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  lib/string.c: fix strim() semantics for strings that have only blanks
  lib/idr.c: fix comment for ida_get_new_above()
  lib/percpu_counter.c: enclose hotplug only variables in hotplug ifdef
  lib/bitmap.c: quiet sparse noise about address space
  lib/spinlock_debug.c: print owner on spinlock lockup
  lib/kstrtox: common code between kstrto*() and simple_strto*() functions
  drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: check if reset is successful
  leds: turn the blink_timer off before starting to blink
  leds: save the delay values after a successful call to blink_set()
  drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c: use gpio_get_value_cansleep() when initializing
  drivers/leds/leds-lm3530.c: add __devexit_p where needed
  ...

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c
index 302e761bd0aa..c98787536bb8 100644
--- a/fs/compat.c
+++ b/fs/compat.c
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ out:
 ssize_t compat_rw_copy_check_uvector(int type,
 		const struct compat_iovec __user *uvector, unsigned long nr_segs,
 		unsigned long fast_segs, struct iovec *fast_pointer,
-		struct iovec **ret_pointer)
+		struct iovec **ret_pointer, int check_access)
 {
 	compat_ssize_t tot_len;
 	struct iovec *iov = *ret_pointer = fast_pointer;
@@ -593,7 +593,8 @@ ssize_t compat_rw_copy_check_uvector(int type,
 		}
 		if (len < 0)	/* size_t not fitting in compat_ssize_t .. */
 			goto out;
-		if (!access_ok(vrfy_dir(type), compat_ptr(buf), len)) {
+		if (check_access &&
+		    !access_ok(vrfy_dir(type), compat_ptr(buf), len)) {
 			ret = -EFAULT;
 			goto out;
 		}
@@ -1107,7 +1108,7 @@ static ssize_t compat_do_readv_writev(int type, struct file *file,
 		goto out;
 
 	tot_len = compat_rw_copy_check_uvector(type, uvector, nr_segs,
-					       UIO_FASTIOV, iovstack, &iov);
+					       UIO_FASTIOV, iovstack, &iov, 1);
 	if (tot_len == 0) {
 		ret = 0;
 		goto out;