linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: add get_user() support for 8 byte types

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Date:	Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:11:09 +0000
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Rob Clark <rob.clark@...aro.org>
Cc:	"Russell King - ARM Linux" <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, patches@...aro.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: add get_user() support for 8 byte types

On Tuesday 13 November 2012, Rob Clark wrote:
> right, that is what I was worried about..  but what about something
> along the lines of:
> 
>                 case 8: {                                               \
>                         if (sizeof(x) < 8)                              \
>                                 __get_user_x(__r2, __p, __e, __l, 4);   \
>                         else                                            \
>                                 __get_user_x(__r2, __p, __e, __l, 8);   \
>                         break;                                          \
>                 }                                                       \

I guess that's still broken if x is 8 or 16 bits wide.

> maybe we need a special variant of __get_user_8() instead to get the
> right 32bits on big vs little endian systems, but I think something
> roughly along these lines could work.
> 
> Or maybe in sizeof(x)<8 case, we just __get_user_bad()..  I'm not 100%
> sure on whether this is supposed to be treated as an error case at
> compile time or not.

We know that nobody is using that at the moment, so we could define
it to be a compile-time error.

But I still think this is a pointless exercise, a number of people have
concluded independently that it's not worth trying to come up with a
solution, whether one exists or not. Why can't you just use copy_from_user()
anyway?

	Arnd
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