On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 12:10 PM Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> No arguments re put_user_ex side of things... Below is a completely
> untested patch for get_user_ex elimination (it seems to build, but that's
> it); in any case, I would really like to see comments from x86 folks
> before it goes anywhere.
Please don't do this:
> + if (unlikely(__copy_from_user(&sc, usc, sizeof(sc))))
> + goto Efault;
Why would you use __copy_from_user()? Just don't.
> + if (unlikely(__copy_from_user(&v, user_vm86,
> + offsetof(struct vm86_struct, int_revectored))))
Same here.
There's no excuse for __copy_from_user().
Linus
