linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/9] fs: explicitly check for CHECK_IOVEC_ONLY in rw_copy_check

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Date:   Fri, 18 Sep 2020 13:56:11 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] fs: explicitly check for CHECK_IOVEC_ONLY in
 rw_copy_check_uvector

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 02:45:27PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>  		}
> -		if (type >= 0
> -		    && unlikely(!access_ok(buf, len))) {
> +		if (type != CHECK_IOVEC_ONLY && unlikely(!access_ok(buf, len))) {

drop the unlikely() at the same time?  if it's really advantageous,
that should be embedded in the access_ok macro.