linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/9] kernel: add a PF_FORCE

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Message-ID: <20200918151615.GA23432@lst.de>
Date:   Fri, 18 Sep 2020 17:16:15 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        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,
        linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
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        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-aio@...ck.org,
        io-uring@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
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        keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] kernel: add a PF_FORCE_COMPAT flag

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 02:58:22PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> Said that, why not provide a variant that would take an explicit
> "is it compat" argument and use it there?  And have the normal
> one pass in_compat_syscall() to that...

That would help to not introduce a regression with this series yes.
But it wouldn't fix existing bugs when io_uring is used to access
read or write methods that use in_compat_syscall().  One example that
I recently ran into is drivers/scsi/sg.c.