[PATCH 12/13] arm64: uaccess: remove addr_limit_user_check()

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon Sep 28 05:06:44 EDT 2020


On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 09:05:34AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 05:07:21PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > Subsequent patches will remove addr_limit from arm64, consequently the
> > addr_limit checks will become redundant. As a preparatory step, remove
> > the checks and associated thread flag.
> 
> Wasn't this done in earlier patches?  The only thing the next patch
> does is to remove the PAN stuff.  Maybe fold it into the patch
> removing the addr_limit checking?

Ah, this is a rebase artifact from when the patches were the other way
around. I'll update the commit message to not be misleading.

Thanks,
Mark.



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