Re: [GIT PULL] KVM patches for Linux 6.1-rc2

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/24/22 00:15, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> compat_ptr() also happens to get the address space right (ie it
> returns a "void __user *" pointer). But since the non-compat 'struct
> kvm_msr_filter_range' bitmap member doesn't get that right either
> (because it uses the same type for kernel pointers as for user
> pointers - ugly uglt), that isn't such a big deal. The kvm code
> clearly doesn't do proper user pointer typing, and just uses random
> casts instead.
In general KVM ioctl arguments very rarely have __user pointers in them, 
so there's not much need for compat ioctls at all.  KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG 
and KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG get it right, but this one indeed can be 
improved with compat_ptr().  Will do for 6.2, thanks for the review.

Paolo