[PATCH 4/6] mm, arm64: untag user addresses in mm/gup.c

Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov at linux.intel.com
Wed May 2 08:36:46 PDT 2018


On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 02:38:42PM +0000, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> > Does having a tagged address here makes any difference? I couldn't hit a
> > failure with my simple tests (LD_PRELOAD a library that randomly adds
> > tags to pointers returned by malloc).
> 
> I think you're right, follow_page_mask is only called from
> __get_user_pages, which already untagged the address. I'll remove
> untagging here.

It also called from follow_page(). Have you covered all its callers?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov



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