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From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>, catalin.marinas@arm.com
Cc: kernel-team@android.com, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chen Huang <chenhuang5@huawei.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Avoid premature usercopy failure
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:39:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <162636655524.637200.10931507080931105968.b4-ty@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dc03d5c675731a1f24a62417dba5429ad744234e.1626098433.git.robin.murphy@arm.com>

On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 15:27:46 +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Al reminds us that the usercopy API must only return complete failure
> if absolutely nothing could be copied. Currently, if userspace does
> something silly like giving us an unaligned pointer to Device memory,
> or a size which overruns MTE tag bounds, we may fail to honour that
> requirement when faulting on a multi-byte access even though a smaller
> access could have succeeded.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/fixes), thanks!

[1/1] arm64: Avoid premature usercopy failure
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/295cf156231c

Cheers,
-- 
Will

https://fixes.arm64.dev
https://next.arm64.dev
https://will.arm64.dev

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-15 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-12 14:27 [PATCH] arm64: Avoid premature usercopy failure Robin Murphy
2021-07-13 16:59 ` Will Deacon
2021-07-13 17:20   ` Catalin Marinas
2021-07-15 17:39 ` Will Deacon [this message]

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