linux-kernel - Re: Commit 25f12ae45fc1 ("maccess: rename probe_kernel_address to get_kernel

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2006190043240.9276@xps-7390>
Date:   Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:45:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:   "Kenneth R. Crudup" <kenny@...ix.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Commit 25f12ae45fc1 ("maccess: rename probe_kernel_address to
 get_kernel_nofault") causing several OOPSes


On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Just to re-reconfirm, you had to
> revert "maccess: rename probe_kernel_address to get_kernel_nofault",
> "maccess: make get_kernel_nofault() check for minimal type compatibility"
> wasn't enough?

Yeah. the bisect turned up the commit in the subject: and reverting it
(only) stopped the crashes. This was this afternoon's (US PST) Linus' master.

> Below is a patch to do a "partial revert" for probe_roms.c.

I'll give it a shot later, thanks.

	-Kenny

-- 
Kenneth R. Crudup  Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Orange County CA