linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHES] uaccess misc

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wgzwp5U4csNhy6rz6CF6tDrnoNOM0tzg_6GhrCzBNRjXQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 29 May 2020 16:54:35 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] uaccess misc

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 4:26 PM Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> The stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else.  Hopefully
> saner marshalling for weird 7-argument syscalls (pselect6()),

That looked fine to me, btw. Looks like an improvement even outside
the "avoid __get_user()" and double STAC/CLAC issue.

> low-hanging fruit in several binfmt, unsafe_put_user-based
> x86 cp_stat64(), etc. - there's really no common topic here.

My only complaint was that kvm thing that I think should have gone even further.

           Linus