From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
bpf@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pass kernel pointers to the sysctl ->proc_handler method v3
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 16:59:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200426155958.GS23230@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200424064338.538313-1-hch@lst.de>
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 08:43:33AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this series changes the sysctl ->proc_handler methods to take kernel
> pointers. This simplifies some of the pointer handling in the methods
> (which could probably be further simplified now), and gets rid of the
> set_fs address space overrides used by bpf.
>
> Changes since v2:
> - free the buffer modified by BPF
> - move pid_max and friends to pid.h
>
> Changes since v1:
> - drop a patch merged by Greg
> - don't copy data out on a write
> - fix buffer allocation in bpf
OK, I can live with that; further work can live on top of that, anyway.
How are we going to handle that? I can put it into never-rebased branch
in vfs.git (#work.sysctl), so that people could pull that.
FWIW, I'm putting together more uaccess stuff (will probably hit -next
tonight or tomorrow); this would fit well there...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-26 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-24 6:43 pass kernel pointers to the sysctl ->proc_handler method v3 Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-24 6:43 ` [PATCH 1/5] bpf-cgroup: remove unused exports Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-24 6:43 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm: remove watermark_boost_factor_sysctl_handler Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-04 18:41 ` Kees Cook
2020-04-24 6:43 ` [PATCH 3/5] sysctl: remove all extern declaration from sysctl.c Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-04 1:25 ` Stephen Rothwell
2020-05-04 18:42 ` Kees Cook
2020-04-24 6:43 ` [PATCH 4/5] sysctl: avoid forward declarations Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-04 18:44 ` Kees Cook
2020-04-24 6:43 ` [PATCH 5/5] sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-24 19:06 ` Andrey Ignatov
2020-04-27 5:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-04 19:01 ` Kees Cook
2020-05-05 5:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-26 15:51 ` pass kernel pointers to the sysctl ->proc_handler method v3 Alexei Starovoitov
2020-04-27 5:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-26 15:59 ` Al Viro [this message]
2020-04-27 5:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-27 7:15 ` Al Viro
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