Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: fix access_ok() and valid_user_address() using wrong USER_PTR_MAX in modules
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Nov 05 2025 - 06:38:17 EST
On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 10:50:21AM +0900, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I pushed it out with a proper commit message etc. It might not be an
> acute bug right now, but I do want it fixed in 6.18, so that when
> Thomas' new scoped accessors get merged - and maybe cause the whole
> inlining pattern to be much more commonly used - this is all behind
> us.
Right.
> And the patch certainly _looks_ ObviouslyCorrect(tm). Famous last words.
Yeah, and we are testing the lineup in the coming weeks on a lot of hw so if
anything fires, we will catch it. So we should be good.
Thx.
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