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Message-ID: <55511989.2010407@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 14:05:13 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
CC: "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: VERIFY_READ/WRITE in uaccess.h?
On 05/10/2015 02:44 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> While cleaning up UML's uaccess code I've noticed that not a single architecture
> is using VERIFY_READ/WRITE in access_ok().
> One exception is UML, it uses the access type in one check which is in vain anyways.
> Also asm-generic/uaccess.h drops the type parameter silently.
>
> Why do we still carry it around?
>
> Is it because we want it for some future architecture which can benefit
> from it or just because nobody cared enough to do a tree-wide cleanup?
> I fear it is the latter... ;)
>
Or, perhaps, nobody noticed?
-hpa
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