RE: [PATCHES] uaccess simple access_ok() removals

2020-05-10 Thread David Laight
From: Al Viro > Sent: 10 May 2020 00:41 > > One of the uaccess-related branches; this one is just the > cases when access_ok() calls are trivially pointless - the address > in question gets fed only to primitives that do access_ok() checks > themselves. There is also the check in

Re: [PATCHES] uaccess simple access_ok() removals

2020-05-09 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 05:34:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 4:41 PM Al Viro wrote: > > > > Individual patches in followups; if nobody screams - into #for-next > > it goes... > > Looks fine to me, although I only read your commit logs, I didn't > verify that

Re: [PATCHES] uaccess simple access_ok() removals

2020-05-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 4:41 PM Al Viro wrote: > > Individual patches in followups; if nobody screams - into #for-next > it goes... Looks fine to me, although I only read your commit logs, I didn't verify that what you stated was actually true (ie the whole "only used for xyz" parts).

[PATCHES] uaccess simple access_ok() removals

2020-05-09 Thread Al Viro
One of the uaccess-related branches; this one is just the cases when access_ok() calls are trivially pointless - the address in question gets fed only to primitives that do access_ok() checks themselves. This stuff sits in git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git