Re: [PATCH 1/3] MIPS: uaccess: Added __get/__put_kernel_nofault

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 07:48:35PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 07:26:58PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > Added __get/__put_kernel_nofault as preparation for removing
> > get/set_fs.
> 
> For !CONFIG_EVA __get_user_common is simply defined to
> __get_kernel_common, which probably does the wrong thing here
> as it would allow access to user space addresses, won't it?

it does, so I'm missing a copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed() function,
which only allows kernel access, right ?

Thomas.

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