From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] iov_iter: explicitly check for CHECK_IOVEC_ONLY in rw_copy_check_uvector
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 16:07:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200921150745.GT3421308@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200921143434.707844-5-hch@lst.de>
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 04:34:27PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Explicitly check for the magic value insted of implicitly relying on
> its numeric representation. Also drop the rather pointless unlikely
> annotation.
See above - I would rather have CHECK_IOVEC_ONLY gone.
The reason for doing these access_ok() in the same loop is fairly weak,
especially since you are checking type on each iteration. Might as
well do that in a separate loop afterwards.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-21 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-21 14:34 let import_iovec deal with compat_iovecs as well v2 Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 01/11] compat.h: fix a spelling error in <linux/compat.h> Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 02/11] mm: call import_iovec() instead of rw_copy_check_uvector() in process_vm_rw() Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 14:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-21 15:02 ` Al Viro
2020-09-21 15:21 ` David Laight
2020-09-21 15:29 ` Al Viro
2020-09-21 15:44 ` David Laight
2020-09-21 16:27 ` Al Viro
2020-09-21 16:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 03/11] iov_iter: move rw_copy_check_uvector() into lib/iov_iter.c and mark it static Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 04/11] iov_iter: explicitly check for CHECK_IOVEC_ONLY in rw_copy_check_uvector Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 15:05 ` David Laight
2020-09-21 15:11 ` Al Viro
2020-09-21 15:26 ` David Laight
2020-09-21 15:07 ` Al Viro [this message]
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 05/11] iov_iter: merge the compat case into rw_copy_check_uvector Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 15:14 ` Al Viro
2021-01-08 11:49 ` David Laight
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 06/11] iov_iter: handle the compat case in import_iovec Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 15:20 ` Al Viro
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 07/11] fs: remove various compat readv/writev helpers Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 08/11] fs: remove the compat readv/writev syscalls Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 09/11] fs: remove compat_sys_vmsplice Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 10/11] mm: remove compat_process_vm_{readv,writev} Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 11/11] security/keys: remove compat_keyctl_instantiate_key_iov Christoph Hellwig
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