Re: [PATCH 0/5] vt: get rid of worst cases of __put_user/__get_user

2017-06-09 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 07:13:50AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 12:42:52AM +0900, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 09:32:55AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > Hi! > > > In a recent discussion, Linus and Al Viro said quite a bit of expletives > > > about __pu

Re: [PATCH 0/5] vt: get rid of worst cases of __put_user/__get_user

2017-06-04 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 07:13:50AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 12:42:52AM +0900, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 09:32:55AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > Hi! > > > In a recent discussion, Linus and Al Viro said quite a bit of expletives > > > about __pu

Re: [PATCH 0/5] vt: get rid of worst cases of __put_user/__get_user

2017-06-04 Thread Al Viro
On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 12:42:52AM +0900, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 09:32:55AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Hi! > > In a recent discussion, Linus and Al Viro said quite a bit of expletives > > about __put_user() and __get_user(), that it's a bad interface that's > > alm

Re: [PATCH 0/5] vt: get rid of worst cases of __put_user/__get_user

2017-06-03 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 09:32:55AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Hi! > In a recent discussion, Linus and Al Viro said quite a bit of expletives > about __put_user() and __get_user(), that it's a bad interface that's > almost always the wrong thing to use: > https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=14946

[PATCH 0/5] vt: get rid of worst cases of __put_user/__get_user

2017-06-03 Thread Adam Borowski
Hi! In a recent discussion, Linus and Al Viro said quite a bit of expletives about __put_user() and __get_user(), that it's a bad interface that's almost always the wrong thing to use: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=149463725626316&w=2 https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=149465866929092&w=2 H