From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-um <linux-um@lists.infradead.org>,
Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: clean up and streamline probe_kernel_* and friends v4
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 11:03:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wiQa3GNytJDdN=RKzSKfGQdPBvso+2Lmi+BpOP=BA_n6A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200521152301.2587579-1-hch@lst.de>
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 8:23 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>
> this series start cleaning up the safe kernel and user memory probing
> helpers in mm/maccess.c, and then allows architectures to implement
> the kernel probing without overriding the address space limit and
> temporarily allowing access to user memory. It then switches x86
> over to this new mechanism by reusing the unsafe_* uaccess logic.
I could not see anything to object to in this version. So Ack from me,
but obviously I'm hoping others will try to read it through as well.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-21 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-21 15:22 clean up and streamline probe_kernel_* and friends v4 Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 01/23] maccess: unexport probe_kernel_write and probe_user_write Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 02/23] maccess: remove various unused weak aliases Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 03/23] maccess: remove duplicate kerneldoc comments Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 04/23] maccess: clarify " Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 05/23] maccess: update the top of file comment Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 06/23] maccess: rename strncpy_from_unsafe_user to strncpy_from_user_nofault Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 07/23] maccess: rename strncpy_from_unsafe_strict to strncpy_from_kernel_nofault Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 08/23] maccess: rename strnlen_unsafe_user to strnlen_user_nofault Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 09/23] maccess: remove probe_read_common and probe_write_common Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 10/23] maccess: unify the probe kernel arch hooks Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-28 0:55 ` Andrew Morton
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 11/23] bpf: factor out a bpf_trace_copy_string helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 22:10 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 12/23] bpf: handle the compat string in bpf_trace_copy_string better Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 22:10 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-05-28 2:04 ` Andrew Morton
2020-05-28 2:26 ` Yonghong Song
2020-05-28 4:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-28 17:06 ` Yonghong Song
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 13/23] bpf: rework the compat kernel probe handling Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 22:10 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 14/23] tracing/kprobes: handle mixed kernel/userspace probes better Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-22 0:04 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 15/23] maccess: remove strncpy_from_unsafe Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 16/23] maccess: always use strict semantics for probe_kernel_read Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 17/23] maccess: move user access routines together Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 18/23] maccess: allow architectures to provide kernel probing directly Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 19/23] x86: use non-set_fs based maccess routines Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 20/23] maccess: rename probe_kernel_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 21/23] maccess: rename probe_user_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_user_nofault Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 15:23 ` [PATCH 22/23] maccess: rename probe_kernel_address to get_kernel_nofault Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 15:23 ` [PATCH 23/23] maccess: return -ERANGE when copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed fails Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 18:03 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2020-05-22 0:22 ` clean up and streamline probe_kernel_* and friends v4 Masami Hiramatsu
2020-05-25 22:19 ` Andrew Morton
2020-05-26 6:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-28 0:36 ` Andrew Morton
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