From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] kernel: add a PF_FORCE_COMPAT flag
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 06:28:15 +0200
Message-ID: <20200921042815.GA16281@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrWHW4wHG+Z-mxsY-kvjSi+S6gRUQ+LHd9syPcm5bhi3cw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 12:14:49PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> I wonder if this is really quite cast in stone. We could also have
> FMODE_SHITTY_COMPAT and set that when a file like this is *opened* in
> compat mode. Then that particular struct file would be read and
> written using the compat data format. The change would be
> user-visible, but the user that would see it would be very strange
> indeed.
>
> I don't have a strong opinion as to whether that is better or worse
> than denying io_uring access to these things, but at least it moves
> the special case out of io_uring.
open could have happened through an io_uring thread a well, so I don't
see how this would do anything but move the problem to a different
place.
>
> --Andy
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Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-18 12:45 let import_iovec deal with compat_iovecs as well Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-18 12:45 ` [PATCH 1/9] kernel: add a PF_FORCE_COMPAT flag Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-18 13:40 ` Al Viro
2020-09-18 13:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-18 13:58 ` Al Viro
2020-09-18 15:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-19 16:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-19 21:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-09-19 21:52 ` Finn Thain
2020-09-19 22:22 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-21 16:10 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-09-21 16:13 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-09-21 23:51 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-22 0:22 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-09-22 0:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-22 6:30 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-09-22 7:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-09-22 7:57 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-09-22 9:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-09-22 16:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-23 8:01 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-09-23 13:22 ` Al Viro
2020-09-19 22:09 ` Al Viro
2020-09-19 22:23 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-19 22:41 ` Al Viro
2020-09-19 22:53 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-19 23:24 ` Al Viro
2020-09-20 0:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-20 2:57 ` Al Viro
2020-09-20 16:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-20 18:12 ` Al Viro
2020-09-20 13:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-09-20 15:02 ` Al Viro
2020-09-19 14:53 ` David Laight
2020-09-18 13:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-09-20 15:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-20 15:55 ` William Kucharski
2020-09-21 16:20 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-09-20 16:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-09-20 18:07 ` Al Viro
2020-09-20 18:41 ` Al Viro
2020-09-20 19:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-20 19:10 ` Al Viro
2020-09-20 19:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-20 19:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-20 20:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-09-20 21:13 ` David Laight
2020-09-21 16:31 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-09-20 21:42 ` Al Viro
2020-09-21 16:26 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-09-20 19:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-21 4:28 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-09-18 12:45 ` [PATCH 2/9] compat.h: fix a spelling error in <linux/compat.h> Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-18 13:37 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-09-18 12:45 ` [PATCH 3/9] fs: explicitly check for CHECK_IOVEC_ONLY in rw_copy_check_uvector Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-18 12:56 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-18 13:39 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-09-18 12:45 ` [PATCH 4/9] fs: handle the compat case in import_iovec Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-18 12:45 ` [PATCH 5/9] fs: remove various compat readv/writev helpers Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-18 12:45 ` [PATCH 6/9] fs: remove the compat readv/writev syscalls Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-18 12:45 ` [PATCH 7/9] fs: remove compat_sys_vmsplice Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-18 12:45 ` [PATCH 8/9] mm: remove compat_process_vm_{readv,writev} Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-18 13:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-09-18 12:45 ` [PATCH 9/9] security/keys: remove compat_keyctl_instantiate_key_iov Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-19 14:24 ` let import_iovec deal with compat_iovecs as well David Laight
2020-09-21 4:41 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2020-09-21 11:11 ` David Laight
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