Re: [PATCH 18/20] objtool: Add UACCESS validation

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On March 7, 2019 8:33:26 AM PST, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 3:52 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>>
>> XXX: are we sure we want __memset marked AC-safe?
>
>It's certainly one of the safer functions to call with AC set, but it
>sounds wrong anyway. It's not like it's likely to leak kernel data
>(most memset's are with 0, and even the non-zero ones I can't imagine
>are sensitive - more like poison values etc).
>
>What's the call site that made you go "just add __memset() to the
>list"?
>
>            Linus

Agreed... it seems fishy at least.

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