Re: [RFC][PATCHES] uaccess-related stuff in net/*

From: David Miller
Date: Mon May 11 2020 - 20:02:54 EST


From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 05:43:28 +0100

> Assorted uaccess-related work in net/*. First, there's
> getting rid of compat_alloc_user_space() mess in MCAST_...
> [gs]etsockopt() - no need to play with copying to/from temporary
> object on userland stack, etc., when ->compat_[sg]etsockopt()
> instances in question can easly do everything without that.
> That's the first 13 patches. Then there's a trivial bit in
> net/batman-adv (completely unrelated to everything else) and
> finally getting the atm compat ioctls into simpler shape.
>
> Please, review and comment. Individual patches in followups,
> the entire branch (on top of current net/master) is in
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git #uaccess.net

I have no problems with this series:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>