linux-kernel - [PATCH 03/14] bpfilter: switch to kernel

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Message-Id: <20200624161335.1810359-4-hch@lst.de>
Date:   Wed, 24 Jun 2020 18:13:24 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 03/14] bpfilter: switch to kernel_write

While pipes don't really need sb_writers projection, __kernel_write is an
interface better kept private, and the additional rw_verify_area does not
hurt here.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
---
 net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c b/net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c
index c0f0990f30b604..1905e01c3aa9a7 100644
--- a/net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c
+++ b/net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ static int __bpfilter_process_sockopt(struct sock *sk, int optname,
 	req.len = optlen;
 	if (!bpfilter_ops.info.pid)
 		goto out;
-	n = __kernel_write(bpfilter_ops.info.pipe_to_umh, &req, sizeof(req),
+	n = kernel_write(bpfilter_ops.info.pipe_to_umh, &req, sizeof(req),
 			   &pos);
 	if (n != sizeof(req)) {
 		pr_err("write fail %zd\n", n);
-- 
2.26.2