From: Al Viro <[email protected]>
To: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/11] iov_iter: handle the compat case in import_iovec
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 16:20:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 04:34:29PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Use in compat_syscall to import either native or the compat iovecs, and
> remove the now superflous compat_import_iovec, which removes the need for
> special compat logic in most callers. Only io_uring needs special
> treatment given that it can call import_iovec from kernel threads acting
> on behalf of native or compat syscalls. Expose the low-level
> __import_iovec helper and use it in io_uring to explicitly pick a iovec
> layout.
fs/aio.c part is not obvious... Might be better to use __import_iovec()
there as well and leave the rest of aio.c changes to followup.
> --- a/lib/iov_iter.c
> +++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
> @@ -1683,7 +1683,7 @@ static int compat_copy_iovecs_from_user(struct iovec *iov,
> return ret;
> }
>
> -static ssize_t __import_iovec(int type, const struct iovec __user *uvector,
> +ssize_t __import_iovec(int type, const struct iovec __user *uvector,
> unsigned nr_segs, unsigned fast_segs, struct iovec **iovp,
> struct iov_iter *i, bool compat)
> {
Don't make it static in the first place, perhaps?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-21 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-21 14:34 let import_iovec deal with compat_iovecs as well v2 Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 01/11] compat.h: fix a spelling error in <linux/compat.h> Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 02/11] mm: call import_iovec() instead of rw_copy_check_uvector() in process_vm_rw() Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 14:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-21 15:02 ` Al Viro
2020-09-21 15:21 ` David Laight
2020-09-21 15:29 ` Al Viro
2020-09-21 15:44 ` David Laight
2020-09-21 16:27 ` Al Viro
2020-09-21 16:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 03/11] iov_iter: move rw_copy_check_uvector() into lib/iov_iter.c and mark it static Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 04/11] iov_iter: explicitly check for CHECK_IOVEC_ONLY in rw_copy_check_uvector Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 15:05 ` David Laight
2020-09-21 15:11 ` Al Viro
2020-09-21 15:26 ` David Laight
2020-09-21 15:07 ` Al Viro
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 05/11] iov_iter: merge the compat case into rw_copy_check_uvector Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 15:14 ` Al Viro
2021-01-08 11:49 ` David Laight
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 06/11] iov_iter: handle the compat case in import_iovec Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 15:20 ` Al Viro [this message]
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 07/11] fs: remove various compat readv/writev helpers Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 08/11] fs: remove the compat readv/writev syscalls Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 09/11] fs: remove compat_sys_vmsplice Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 10/11] mm: remove compat_process_vm_{readv,writev} Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 14:34 ` [PATCH 11/11] security/keys: remove compat_keyctl_instantiate_key_iov Christoph Hellwig
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