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* remove the last set_fs() in common code, and remove it for x86 and powerpc v2
@ 2020-08-27 15:00 Christoph Hellwig
  2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 01/10] fs: don't allow kernel reads and writes without iter ops Christoph Hellwig
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From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2020-08-27 15:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds, Al Viro, Michael Ellerman, x86
  Cc: Kees Cook, linux-kernel, linux-fsdevel, linux-arch, linuxppc-dev

Hi all,

this series removes the last set_fs() used to force a kernel address
space for the uaccess code in the kernel read/write/splice code, and then
stops implementing the address space overrides entirely for x86 and
powerpc.

The file system part has been posted a few times, and the read/write side
has been pretty much unchanced.  For splice this series drops the
conversion of the seq_file and sysctl code to the iter ops, and thus loses
the splice support for them.  The reasons for that is that it caused a lot
of churn for not much use - splice for these small files really isn't much
of a win, even if existing userspace uses it.  All callers I found do the
proper fallback, but if this turns out to be an issue the conversion can
be resurrected.

Besides x86 and powerpc I plan to eventually convert all other
architectures, although this will be a slow process, starting with the
easier ones once the infrastructure is merged.  The process to convert
architectures is roughtly:

 (1) ensure there is no set_fs(KERNEL_DS) left in arch specific code
 (2) implement __get_kernel_nofault and __put_kernel_nofault
 (3) remove the arch specific address limitation functionality

Changes since v1:
 - drop the patch to remove the non-iter ops for /dev/zero and
   /dev/null as they caused a performance regression
 - don't enable user access in __get_kernel on powerpc
 - xfail the set_fs() based lkdtm tests

Diffstat:

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2020-08-27 15:00 remove the last set_fs() in common code, and remove it for x86 and powerpc v2 Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 01/10] fs: don't allow kernel reads and writes without iter ops Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:58   ` David Laight
2020-08-29  9:23     ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
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2020-09-01  7:08     ` [fs] ef30fb3c60: kernel write not supported for file /sys/kernel/softlockup_panic Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 02/10] fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 03/10] uaccess: add infrastructure for kernel builds with set_fs() Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 04/10] test_bitmap: skip user bitmap tests for !CONFIG_SET_FS Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 05/10] lkdtm: disable set_fs-based " Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 18:06   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-29  9:24     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-01 18:52       ` Kees Cook
2020-09-01 18:57       ` Kees Cook
2020-09-02  8:09         ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 06/10] x86: move PAGE_OFFSET, TASK_SIZE & friends to page_{32,64}_types.h Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 07/10] x86: make TASK_SIZE_MAX usable from assembly code Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 08/10] x86: remove address space overrides using set_fs() Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 18:15   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-29  9:25     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 09/10] powerpc: use non-set_fs based maccess routines Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 10/10] powerpc: remove address space overrides using set_fs() Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-02  6:15   ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-02 12:36     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-02 13:13       ` David Laight
2020-09-02 13:24         ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-02 13:51           ` David Laight
2020-09-02 14:12             ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-02 15:02               ` David Laight
2020-09-02 15:17       ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-02 18:02         ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-03  7:11           ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03  7:27             ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-03  8:55             ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-03  7:20           ` Christophe Leroy
2020-08-27 15:31 ` remove the last set_fs() in common code, and remove it for x86 and powerpc v2 Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-01 17:13 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-01 17:25   ` Al Viro
2020-09-01 17:42     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-01 18:39     ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-01 19:01     ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-02  8:10     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-27  9:29 ` [PATCH 02/10] fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops David Howells
2020-10-27  9:51 ` David Howells
2020-10-27  9:54   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-27 10:38   ` David Howells

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