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Message-ID: <20190225194203.GI26145@zn.tnic>
Date:   Mon, 25 Feb 2019 20:42:03 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/uaccess: Remove unused __addr_ok() macro

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:20:42AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:11 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
> >
> > This was caught while staring at the whole {set,get}_fs() machinery.
> 
> Heh.
> 
> You should probably have researched _when_ it became unused.
> 
> That seems to have happened in commit 5723aa993d83 ("x86: use the new
> generic strnlen_user() function") which removed the single user from
> the x86-32 version of strnlen_user(), which used to have
> 
>         unsigned long mask = -__addr_ok(s);

Yap, found it. I still have

$ git log -p -G__addr_ok --pickaxe-all

in one of the shells' history here.

I'll add that to the commit message.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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