linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: export copy_to_kernel

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Message-Id: <20241107142938.c38ce0a63add88af49216b2f@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 14:29:38 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>,
 Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov <snovitoll@...il.com>, Andrey Konovalov
 <andreyknvl@...il.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: export copy_to_kernel_nofault

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:05:36 -0700 Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 09:02:23AM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> > Another alternative is to just #ifndef MODULE the offending test case,
> > so it's only available if built-in. No need to just make the whole
> > test built-in only. I know there are users of this particular test
> > that rely on it being a module.
> 
> That sounds good to me.

We still don't have patch which does this, so this series is stalled.

Sabyrzhan, could you please consider this?