[PATCH, RFC] um: remove set_fs

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Fri Jul 9 09:57:37 PDT 2021


On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 04:47:34PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Seems to survive my normal (wireless related) tests :)
> 
> But I don't really understand what any of it does, so ...
> 
> In particular, why no pagefaults for kernel addresses?

No idea.  But the existing uaccess_kernel() versions of the user copy
routines assume it, so this patch just keeps that behavior when switching
to the proper helpers.



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