Re: [PATCHES] uaccess hpsa

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Jun 03 2020 - 15:17:48 EST


On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 06:37:11PM +0000, Don.Brace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-scsi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-scsi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Al Viro
> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2020 6:39 PM
> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Don Brace <don.brace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCHES] uaccess hpsa
>
> hpsa compat ioctl done (hopefully) saner. I really want to kill compat_alloc_user_space() off - it's always trouble and for a driver-private ioctls it's absolutely pointless.
>
> The series is in vfs.git #uaccess.hpsa, based at v5.7-rc1
>
> Al Viro (4):
> hpsa passthrough: lift {BIG_,}IOCTL_Command_struct copy{in,out} into hpsa_ioctl()
> hpsa: don't bother with vmalloc for BIG_IOCTL_Command_struct
> hpsa: get rid of compat_alloc_user_space()
> hpsa_ioctl(): tidy up a bit
>
> Acked-by: Don Brace <don.brace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Don Brace <don.brace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

OK... Acked-by/Tested-by added, branch re-pushed (commits are otherwise
identical). Which tree would you prefer that to go through - vfs.git,
scsi.git, something else?