linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] uaccess-related bits of vfs.git

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Message-ID: <20170513193424.GD390@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:   Sat, 13 May 2017 20:34:25 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] uaccess-related bits of vfs.git

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 08:11:42PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> It's not impossible to review; the problem is in figuring out which codepaths
> are hot enough to worry about them.  And I'm even more convinced that
> bulk search-and-replace is the right approach here; we probably _can_ get
			    ^- not
apologies for sloppy editing...

> rid of that shit this cycle (or, at least, reduce its use to very few places
> in arch/*), but that'll require some cooperation from architecture maintainers.