From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] mm: Hardened usercopy
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 09:19:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFzv4kQitzhWgxRAi5XXM30f70d4dbTGkr7t=fZSh4r3Ow@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160708084639.GA4562@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 1:46 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Could you please try to find some syscall workload that does many small user
> copies and thus excercises this code path aggressively?
Any stat()-heavy path will hit cp_new_stat() very heavily. Think the
usual kind of "traverse the whole tree looking for something". "git
diff" will do it, just checking that everything is up-to-date.
That said, other things tend to dominate.
Linus
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Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-06 22:25 [PATCH 0/9] mm: Hardened usercopy Kees Cook
2016-07-06 22:25 ` [PATCH 1/9] " Kees Cook
2016-07-07 5:37 ` Baruch Siach
2016-07-07 17:25 ` Kees Cook
2016-07-07 18:35 ` Baruch Siach
2016-07-07 7:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-07-07 17:29 ` Kees Cook
2016-07-07 19:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-07-07 8:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-07-07 17:37 ` Kees Cook
2016-07-08 5:34 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-07-08 5:34 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-07-08 5:34 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-07-08 5:34 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-07-08 9:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-07-07 16:19 ` Rik van Riel
2016-07-07 16:35 ` Rik van Riel
2016-07-07 17:41 ` Kees Cook
2016-07-06 22:25 ` [PATCH 2/9] x86/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy Kees Cook
2016-07-06 22:25 ` [PATCH 3/9] ARM: uaccess: " Kees Cook
2016-07-06 22:25 ` [PATCH 4/9] arm64/uaccess: " Kees Cook
2016-07-07 10:07 ` Mark Rutland
2016-07-07 17:19 ` Kees Cook
2016-07-06 22:25 ` [PATCH 5/9] ia64/uaccess: " Kees Cook
2016-07-06 22:25 ` [PATCH 6/9] powerpc/uaccess: " Kees Cook
2016-07-06 22:25 ` [PATCH 7/9] sparc/uaccess: " Kees Cook
2016-07-06 22:25 ` [PATCH 8/9] mm: SLAB hardened usercopy support Kees Cook
2016-07-06 22:25 ` [PATCH 9/9] mm: SLUB " Kees Cook
2016-07-07 4:35 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-07-07 4:35 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-07-07 4:35 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-07-07 4:35 ` Michael Ellerman
[not found] ` <577ddc18.d351190a.1fa54.ffffbe79SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2016-07-07 18:56 ` [kernel-hardening] " Kees Cook
2016-07-08 10:19 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-07-08 10:19 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-07-08 10:19 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-07-08 10:19 ` [kernel-hardening] " Michael Ellerman
2016-07-07 7:30 ` [PATCH 0/9] mm: Hardened usercopy Christian Borntraeger
2016-07-07 17:27 ` Kees Cook
2016-07-08 8:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-07-08 16:19 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2016-07-08 18:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-07-09 2:22 ` Laura Abbott
2016-07-09 2:44 ` Rik van Riel
2016-07-09 7:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-07-09 8:25 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-07-09 12:58 ` Laura Abbott
2016-07-09 17:03 ` Kees Cook
2016-07-09 17:01 ` Kees Cook
2016-07-09 21:27 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-09 23:16 ` PaX Team
2016-07-10 9:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-07-10 12:03 ` PaX Team
2016-07-10 12:38 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 18:40 ` Kees Cook
2016-07-11 18:34 ` Kees Cook
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