Re: [PATCH 03/11] fs: add new read_uptr and write_uptr file operations

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 08:24:37PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 11:20:26AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 11:14 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > So we'd need new user copy functions for just those cases
> > 
> > No. We'd open-code them. They'd look at "oh, I'm supposed to use a
> > kernel pointer" and just use those.
> > 
> > IOW, basically IN THE CODE that cares (and the whole argument is that
> > this code is one or two special cases) you do
> > 
> >     /* This has not been converted to the new world order */
> >     if (get_fs() == KERNEL_DS) memcpy(..) else copy_from_user();
> > 
> > You're overdesigning things. You're making them more complex than they
> > need to be.
> 
> I wish it was so simple.  I really don't like overdesigns, trust me.
> 
> But please take a look at setsockopt and all the different instances
> (count 90 .setsockopt wireups, and they then branch out into
> various subroutines as well).  I really don't want to open code that
> there, but we could do helper specific to setsockopt.

Can we do a setsockopt_iter() which replaces optval/optlen with an iov_iter?