Re: [PATCH] x86: uaccess: fix regression in unsafe_get_user

[Arthur Gautier]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 11:15:44AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> This seems like it's just papering over the underlying problem: with
> Jann's new checks in place, strncpy_from_user() is simply buggy.  Does
> the patch below look decent?  It's only compile-tested, but it's
> conceptually straightforward.  I was hoping I could get rid of the
> check-maximum-address stuff, but it's needed for architectures where
> the user range is adjacent to the kernel range (i.e. not x86_64).

I'm unable to trigger the BUG I had with my initramfs with this patch
applied. Thanks!

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