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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/copy_user: Remove 64-bit asm _copy_*_user variants
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 17:02:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFzTWhktHU4t+wtP7DECDbBpq3ajYzz5BvjXKNf5dVkXnA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161031151015.22087-1-bp@alien8.de>

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
>
> We already have the same functionality in usercopy_32.c. Share it with
> 64-bit and get rid of some more asm glue which is not needed anymore.

I see this already made it into -tip, but it looks good to me. I think
Al may have some of this in generic code already in his uaccess
cleanup stuff, but I doubt this makes for any huge merge conflict
issues.

         Linus

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-01 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-31 15:10 [PATCH] x86/copy_user: Remove 64-bit asm _copy_*_user variants Borislav Petkov
2016-11-01  7:13 ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/copy_user: Unify the code by removing the 64-bit asm _copy_*_user() variants tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2016-11-01 23:02 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]

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