linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][CFT][PATCHSET v1] uaccess unification

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Date:   Fri, 31 Mar 2017 14:38:17 +0100
From:   James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
CC:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC][CFT][PATCHSET v1] uaccess unification

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 05:21:32PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > At the moment I have that conversion done for everything except ia64 and
> > metag.  Once everything is converted, I'll remove ARCH_HAS_RAW_COPY_USER
> > and make generic stuff unconditional; at the same point
> > HAVE_ARCH_HARDENED_USERCOPY will be gone (becoming unconditionally true).
> 
> Yay! :)

In the mean time should ARCH_HAS_RAW_COPY_USER select
HAVE_ARCH_HARDENED_USERCOPY?

FWIW I already have patches for metag to enable RAW_COPY_USER that just
need some more testing (mainly due to prerequisite user copy fixes), but
I don't know about ia64

Cheers
James

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