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Message-ID: <20170510081431.GA16610@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 01:14:31 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address
limit before returning to user-mode
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 09:08:41AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 09:37:04AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> > > How about trying to remove all of them? If we could actually get rid
> > > of all of them, we could drop the arch support, and we'd get faster,
> > > simpler, shorter uaccess code throughout the kernel.
>
> BTW, not all get_user() under KERNEL_DS are plain loads. There is an
> exception - probe_kernel_read().
And various calls that looks like opencoded versions, e.g. drivers/dio
or the ELF loader.
But in the long run we'll just need a separate primitive for that,
but that can wait until the set_fs calls outside the core code are
gone.
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