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

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Message-ID: <CALCETrXVtBkxNJcMxf9myaKT9snHKbCWUenKHGRfp8AOtORBPg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 20 Sep 2020 12:28:20 -0700
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] kernel: add a PF_FORCE_COMPAT flag

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 12:23 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 08:10:31PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > IMO it's much saner to mark those and refuse to touch them from io_uring...
>
> Simpler solution is to remove io_uring from the 32-bit syscall list.
> If you're a 32-bit process, you don't get to use io_uring.  Would
> any real users actually care about that?

We could go one step farther and declare that we're done adding *any*
new compat syscalls :)



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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC