linux-kernel - [PATCH net-next v3 0/4] remove compat_alloc_user

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Message-Id: <20201106173231.3031349-1-arnd@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri,  6 Nov 2020 18:32:27 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>,
        Taehee Yoo <ap420073@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next v3 0/4] remove compat_alloc_user_space()

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

This is the third version of my seires, now spanning four patches
instead of two, with a new approach for handling struct ifreq
compatibility after I realized that my earlier approach introduces
additional problems.

The idea here is to always push down the compat conversion
deeper into the call stack: rather than pretending to be
native mode with a modified copy of the original data on
the user space stack, have the code that actually works on
the data understand the difference between native and compat
versions.

I have spent a long time looking at all drivers that implement
an ndo_do_ioctl callback to verify that my assumptions are
correct. This has led to a series of 29 additional patches
that I am not including here but will post separately, fixing
a number of bugs in SIOCDEVPRIVATE ioctls, removing dead
code, and splitting ndo_do_ioctl into two new ndo callbacks
for private and ethernet specific commands.

    Arnd

Arnd Bergmann (4):
  ethtool: improve compat ioctl handling
  net: socket: rework SIOC?IFMAP ioctls
  net: socket: simplify dev_ifconf handling
  net: socket: rework compat_ifreq_ioctl()

 include/linux/compat.h     |  18 +--
 include/linux/ethtool.h    |   4 -
 include/linux/inetdevice.h |   8 +
 include/linux/netdevice.h  |  12 +-
 net/appletalk/ddp.c        |   4 +-
 net/core/dev_ioctl.c       | 156 +++++++++++---------
 net/ethtool/ioctl.c        | 143 ++++++++++++++++--
 net/ieee802154/socket.c    |   4 +-
 net/ipv4/af_inet.c         |   6 +-
 net/ipv4/devinet.c         |   4 +-
 net/qrtr/qrtr.c            |   4 +-
 net/socket.c               | 291 +++++++++----------------------------
 12 files changed, 311 insertions(+), 343 deletions(-)

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
Cc: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@...il.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org

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