Re: [PATCH v3 8/9] x86: use __uaccess_begin_nospec and ASM_IFENCE in get_user paths

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 2018-01-16 at 14:41 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 
> On Jan 16, 2018 14:23, "Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > That said, for get_user specifically, can we do something even
> > cheaper. Dave H. reminds me that any valid user pointer that gets
> > past
> > the address limit check will have the high bit clear. So instead of
> > calculating a mask, just unconditionally clear the high bit. It
> > seems
> > worse case userspace can speculatively leak something that's
> > already
> > in its address space.
> 
> That's not at all true.
> 
> The address may be a kernel address. That's the whole point of
> 'set_fs()'.

Can we kill off the remaining users of set_fs() ?

Alan