linux-kernel - Re: remove the last set_fs() in common code, and remove it for x86 and powerpc v3

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Message-ID: <20200904060024.GA2779810@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 4 Sep 2020 08:00:24 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, x86@...nel.org,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: remove the last set_fs() in common code, and remove it for x86
 and powerpc v3


* Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> this series removes the last set_fs() used to force a kernel address
> space for the uaccess code in the kernel read/write/splice code, and then
> stops implementing the address space overrides entirely for x86 and
> powerpc.

Cool! For the x86 bits:

  Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>

Thanks,

	Ingo