Now that import_iovec handles compat iovecs as well, all the duplicated
code in the compat readv/writev helpers is not needed. Remove them
and switch the compat syscall handlers to use the native helpers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
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fs/read_write.c| 179 +++-
From: Arnd Bergmann
> Sent: 23 September 2020 19:46
...
> Regardless of that, another advantage of having the SYSCALL_DECLAREx()
> would be the ability to include that header file from elsewhere with a
> different
> macro definition to create a machine-readable version of the interface when
> comb
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 9:48 PM Al Viro wrote:
> FWIW, after playing with that for a while... Do we really want the
> compat_sys_...() declarations to live in linux/compat.h? Most of
> the users of that file don't want those; why not move them to
> linux/syscalls.h?
Sure, let's do that. The tre
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 08:45:51PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 6:38 PM Al Viro wrote:
> >
> > I wonder if we should do something like
> >
> > SYSCALL_DECLARE3(readv, unsigned long, fd, const struct iovec __user *, vec,
> > unsigned long, vlen);
> > in sys
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 6:38 PM Al Viro wrote:
>
> I wonder if we should do something like
>
> SYSCALL_DECLARE3(readv, unsigned long, fd, const struct iovec __user *, vec,
> unsigned long, vlen);
> in syscalls.h instead, and not under that ifdef.
>
> Let it expand to declaration o
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 06:05:27PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 05:38:31PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 03:59:01PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> >
> > > > That's a very good question. But it does not just compile but actually
> > > > works. Probably because all
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:39 PM Al Viro wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 03:59:01PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
>
> > > That's a very good question. But it does not just compile but actually
> > > works. Probably because all the syscall wrappers mean that we don't
> > > actually generate the normal
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 05:38:31PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 03:59:01PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
>
> > > That's a very good question. But it does not just compile but actually
> > > works. Probably because all the syscall wrappers mean that we don't
> > > actually generate the
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 03:59:01PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > That's a very good question. But it does not just compile but actually
> > works. Probably because all the syscall wrappers mean that we don't
> > actually generate the normal names. I just tried this:
> >
> > --- a/include/linux/sys
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 04:32:51PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 03:25:49PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 08:05:43AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(readv, compat_ulong_t, fd,
> > > - const struct compat_iovec __u
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 03:25:49PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 08:05:43AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(readv, compat_ulong_t, fd,
> > - const struct compat_iovec __user *,vec,
> > + const struct iovec __user *, vec,
>
> Um...
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 08:05:43AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(readv, compat_ulong_t, fd,
> - const struct compat_iovec __user *,vec,
> + const struct iovec __user *, vec,
Um... Will it even compile?
> #ifdef __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PREADV64
Now that import_iovec handles compat iovecs as well, all the duplicated
code in the compat readv/writev helpers is not needed. Remove them
and switch the compat syscall handlers to use the native helpers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
---
fs/read_write.c | 179 ---
Now that import_iovec handles compat iovecs as well, all the duplicated
code in the compat readv/writev helpers is not needed. Remove them
and switch the compat syscall handlers to use the native helpers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
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fs/read_write.c | 179 ---
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