RE: [PATCH v5 1/4] rust: uaccess: add userspace pointers

[David Laight]

From: Alice Ryhl
> Sent: 21 April 2024 19:38
> 
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 8:08 PM David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Should you be implementing 'struct iov_iter' ?
> >
> > Even if it means creating an IO_UBUF for ioctls?
> > (Although that might take some 'fettling' for read+write for ioctls.)
> 
> That seems to be intended for when you have several chunks of memory
> in userspace that you want to treat as one contiguous chunk. That's
> not something I need in the Android Binder driver.

It also transparently supports in-kernel users and some other cases.

I think there is a patch intended for 6.10 that removes the 'read'
and 'write' driver 'ops' and requires that drivers support 'read_iter'
and 'write_iter'.

	David

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