On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 11:50:09AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > The UIO file mask in MAINTAINERS was incorrectly directing UACCESS > (include/linux/uio.h) patches to Greg. > > Tag Al as the UACCESS maintainer as Ingo and others have explicitly > required his ack before taking architecture patches that touch > lib/iov_iter.c. > > Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]> > Reported-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]> > --- > I got a bounce last time I tried to send this, hopefully the situation > has improved now. > > Al, let me know if you want this entry. Alternatively we can just do the > UIO file mask fixup by itself.
Sure, no problem, except that UACCESS refers to different things. I'd probably call it UIOVEC, if we want a name that does refer to the same somewhere (*BSD). If anything, it's generalization of copyin/copyout for non-userland destinations/sources; uaccess answer to (subset of) the same problem would be set_fs()/get_fs() and the fewer we have left of that, the better...
