x86/devmem: Remove duplicate range_is_allowed() definition
17 years ago, Venki suggested [1] "A future improvement would be to avoid the range_is_allowed duplication". The only thing preventing a common implementation is that phys_mem_access_prot_allowed() expects the range check to exit immediately when PAT is disabled [2]. I.e. there is no cache conflict to manage in that case. This cleanup was noticed on the path to considering changing range_is_allowed() policy to blanket deny /dev/mem for private (confidential computing) memory. Note, however that phys_mem_access_prot_allowed() has long since stopped being relevant for managing cache-type validation due to [3], and [4]. Commit 0124cecf ("x86, PAT: disable /dev/mem mmap RAM with PAT") [1] Commit 9e41bff2 ("x86: fix /dev/mem mmap breakage when PAT is disabled") [2] Commit 1886297c ("x86/mm/pat: Fix BUG_ON() in mmap_mem() on QEMU/i386") [3] Commit 0c3c8a18 ("x86, PAT: Remove duplicate memtype reserve in devmem mmap") [4] Signed-off-by:Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by:
Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com> Reviewed-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250430024622.1134277-2-dan.j.williams%40intel.com
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