From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [RFC][CFT][PATCHSET v1] uaccess unification
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:48:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170330144847.GN29622@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170330143212.31353830@mschwideX1>
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 02:32:12PM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 06:57:06 +0100
> Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > The patchset currently in vfs.git#work.uaccess is the result;
> > there's more work to do, but it takes care of a large part of the
> > problems. About 2.8KLoc removed, a lot of cruft is gone and semantics
> > is hopefully in sync now. All but two architectures (ia64 and metag)
> > had been switched to new mechanism; for these two I'm afraid that I'll
> > need serious help from maintainers.
>
> I have tested the code in vfs.git#work.uaccess and in principle it works
> for s390. I found one bug which would return an incorrect result
> for copy_from_user if the access faults on the last page of the copy.
> In that case the new code would return 0 instead of the remaining bytes.
>
> This patch snippet should fix it, please just merge it into commit
> "s390: get rid of zeroing, switch to RAW_COPY_USER"
Done.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-30 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-29 5:57 [RFC][CFT][PATCHSET v1] uaccess unification Al Viro
2017-03-29 20:08 ` Vineet Gupta
2017-03-29 20:29 ` Al Viro
2017-03-29 20:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-03-29 21:03 ` Al Viro
2017-03-29 21:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-03-29 23:09 ` Al Viro
2017-03-29 23:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-03-30 15:31 ` Al Viro
2017-03-29 21:14 ` Vineet Gupta
2017-03-29 23:42 ` Al Viro
2017-03-30 0:02 ` Vineet Gupta
2017-03-30 0:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-03-30 1:15 ` Al Viro
2017-03-30 20:40 ` Vineet Gupta
2017-03-30 20:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-03-30 23:21 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-03-30 12:32 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2017-03-30 14:48 ` Al Viro [this message]
2017-03-30 16:22 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-03-30 16:43 ` Al Viro
2017-03-30 17:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-03-30 18:48 ` Al Viro
2017-03-30 18:54 ` Al Viro
2017-03-30 18:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-03-30 19:10 ` Al Viro
2017-03-30 19:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-03-30 21:08 ` Al Viro
2017-03-30 18:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-03-31 0:21 ` Kees Cook
2017-03-31 13:38 ` James Hogan
2017-04-03 16:27 ` James Morse
2017-04-04 20:26 ` Max Filippov
2017-04-04 20:52 ` Al Viro
2017-04-05 5:05 ` ia64 exceptions (Re: [RFC][CFT][PATCHSET v1] uaccess unification) Al Viro
2017-04-05 8:08 ` Al Viro
2017-04-05 18:44 ` Tony Luck
2017-04-05 20:33 ` Al Viro
2017-04-07 0:24 ` [RFC][CFT][PATCHSET v2] uaccess unification Al Viro
2017-04-07 0:35 ` Al Viro
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2017-03-30 13:27 ` [RFC][CFT][PATCHSET v1] " Alexey Dobriyan
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