Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/7] x86/xen: Simplify set_aliased_prot

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:50 AM, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 24/05/16 23:48, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >> In aa1acff356bb ("x86/xen: Probe target addresses in
> >> set_aliased_prot() before the hypercall"), I added an explicit probe
> >> to work around a hypercall issue.  The code can be simplified by
> >> using probe_kernel_read.
> >
> > Acked-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Ingo, can you apply this one patch directly to x86/asm?  The rest of
> the series is stalled pending my fixing Borislav's review comments
> and, more importantly, fixing the bugs that testing it has shaken
> loose.  This patch is a nice cleanup all by itself, though.

Ok, agreed, done.

Note that I simplified it some more:

-       probe_kernel_read(&dummy, (unsigned char *)v, 1);
+       probe_kernel_read(&dummy, v, 1);

... because 'v' already has a 'void *' natural type.

Thanks,

	Ingo