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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/uaccess: Remove unused __addr_ok() macro
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 11:20:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wjOtNqb98XxYks0PMdhqgNiu97_hDxqOKG8Sz3F8H=VcQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190225191109.7671-1-bp@alien8.de>

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:11 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>
> This was caught while staring at the whole {set,get}_fs() machinery.

Heh.

You should probably have researched _when_ it became unused.

That seems to have happened in commit 5723aa993d83 ("x86: use the new
generic strnlen_user() function") which removed the single user from
the x86-32 version of strnlen_user(), which used to have

        unsigned long mask = -__addr_ok(s);

in it.

Way back in 2012.

Ack.

                 Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-25 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-25 19:11 [PATCH] x86/uaccess: Remove unused __addr_ok() macro Borislav Petkov
2019-02-25 19:20 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2019-02-25 19:42   ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-25 21:08     ` Joe Perches
2019-03-04  6:47       ` Christian Kujau
2019-03-27 13:15         ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-25 22:43 ` [tip:x86/cleanups] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov

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