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[$] The end of __get_user() and __put_user()

Linus Torvalds rarely writes significant amounts kernel code these days, so the merging of a 48-part patch series from him is an unusual event. This series, destined for the 7.4 kernel release, performs some long-delayed kernel cleanup by removing a couple of the primitives used to access user-space memory from the kernel. What was once a best practice has long been superseded, but it can take time for such changes to work their way through a body of code this large.

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