[PATCH 0/3] arm64: Usercopy refresh

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Mon Nov 7 11:08:37 PST 2022


On Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:58:50 +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> With the troublesome copy_in_user() now long gone, it's finally time for
> some less-worse usercopy routines! Beyond just improving on the mangled
> old code, this is also spurred on by Mark's ongoing work on exception
> handling, off the back of which we had some ideas around making uaccess
> fixups neater. Those can be explored in due course, but getting the last
> of the old cruft out of the way first should help make it easier. For
> now I've held off on clever macro stuff and stuck with hand-rolled
> labels and explicit annotations which do bump the line count up a fair
> bit, but in the hope of keeping the code itself more readable for
> review.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/uaccess), thanks!

[1/3] arm64: Update copy_from_user()
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/02f7a8ee7a27
[2/3] arm64: Update copy_to_user()
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/c1dd028491d1
[3/3] arm64: Garbage-collect usercopy leftovers
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/72a11ee6f013

Cheers,
-- 
Will

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