From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 15:16:15 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] kernel: add a PF_FORCE_COMPAT flag Message-Id: <20200918151615.GA23432@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: References: <20200918124533.3487701-1-hch@lst.de> <20200918124533.3487701-2-hch@lst.de> <20200918134012.GY3421308@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20200918134406.GA17064@lst.de> <20200918135822.GZ3421308@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20200918135822.GZ3421308@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> To: Al Viro Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe , Arnd Bergmann , David Howells , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org, io-uring@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 02:58:22PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > Said that, why not provide a variant that would take an explicit > "is it compat" argument and use it there? And have the normal > one pass in_compat_syscall() to that... That would help to not introduce a regression with this series yes. But it wouldn't fix existing bugs when io_uring is used to access read or write methods that use in_compat_syscall(). One example that I recently ran into is drivers/scsi/sg.c.