linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/16] mm: use untagged_addr() for get_user_pages

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jun 2019 09:43:53 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@...cle.com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/16] mm: use untagged_addr() for get_user_pages_fast
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 10:39:11AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Hmm, this function, and the other, goes on to do:
> 
>         if (unlikely(!access_ok((void __user *)start, len)))
>                 return 0;
> 
> and I thought that access_ok takes in the tagged pointer?
> 
> How about re-order it a bit?

Actually..  I we reorder this we'd need to to duplicate a few things
due to the zero/negative length checking.  Given the feedback from
Khalid I'd thus rather skip the reorder for now.  If we have a good
reason we could add it back, but it would be a bit involved.