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Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrew Boie 8345e5ebf0 syscalls: remove policy from handler checks
The various macros to do checks in system call handlers all
implictly would generate a kernel oops if a check failed.
This is undesirable for a few reasons:

* System call handlers that acquire resources in the handler
  have no good recourse for cleanup if a check fails.
* In some cases we may want to propagate a return value back
  to the caller instead of just killing the calling thread,
  even though the base API doesn't do these checks.

These macros now all return a value, if nonzero is returned
the check failed. K_OOPS() now wraps these calls to generate
a kernel oops.

At the moment, the policy for all APIs has not changed. They
still all oops upon a failed check/

The macros now use the Z_ notation for private APIs.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
2018-05-17 23:34:03 +03:00
Leandro Pereira c200367b68 drivers: Perform a runtime check if a driver is capable of an operation
Driver APIs might not implement all operations, making it possible for
a user thread to get the kernel to execute a function at 0x00000000.

Perform runtime checks in all the driver handlers, checking if they're
capable of performing the requested operation.

Fixes #6907.

Signed-off-by: Leandro Pereira <leandro.pereira@intel.com>
2018-04-26 02:57:12 +05:30
Leandro Pereira da9b0ddf5b drivers: Rename `random` to `entropy`
This should clear up some of the confusion with random number
generators and drivers that obtain entropy from the hardware.  Also,
many hardware number generators have limited bandwidth, so it's natural
for their output to be only used for seeding a random number generator.

Signed-off-by: Leandro Pereira <leandro.pereira@intel.com>
2017-11-01 08:26:29 -04:00