Fwd: [EXTERNAL] Re: ioctl.c:undefined reference to `__get_user_bad'

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 02:06:33PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> [adding back linux-arm-kernel; what happened to it? ]

Nothing. I'm not interested in trying to do major disgusting
contortions to make get_user() work for 8-byte values. If someone
else wants to put the effort in and come up with an elegant solution
that doesn't add warnings over the rest of the kernel, that's fine.

As far as I remember, everything in __get_user_err() relies on
__gu_val _not_ being 64-bit. If we use the same trick that we do
in __get_user_check():

	__inttype(x) __gu_val = (x);

then if get_user() is called with a 64-bit integer value and a
pointer-to-32-bit location to fetch from, we'd end up passing a
64-bit integer into the __get_user_asm() which could access the
wrong 32-bit half of the value in BE mode. Similar issue with
64-bit vs pointer-to-16-bit.

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