Re: [PATCHES] uaccess misc
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri May 29 2020 - 19:54:57 EST
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 4:26 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Hopefully
> saner marshalling for weird 7-argument syscalls (pselect6()),
That looked fine to me, btw. Looks like an improvement even outside
the "avoid __get_user()" and double STAC/CLAC issue.
> low-hanging fruit in several binfmt, unsafe_put_user-based
> x86 cp_stat64(), etc. - there's really no common topic here.
My only complaint was that kvm thing that I think should have gone even further.
Linus