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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
x86@kernel.org
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: remove the last set_fs() in common code, and remove it for x86 and powerpc v3
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 16:22:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200903142242.925828-1-hch@lst.de> (raw)
Hi all,
this series removes the last set_fs() used to force a kernel address
space for the uaccess code in the kernel read/write/splice code, and then
stops implementing the address space overrides entirely for x86 and
powerpc.
[Note to Linus: I'd like to get this into linux-next rather earlier
than later. Do you think it is ok to add this tree to linux-next?]
The file system part has been posted a few times, and the read/write side
has been pretty much unchanced. For splice this series drops the
conversion of the seq_file and sysctl code to the iter ops, and thus loses
the splice support for them. The reasons for that is that it caused a lot
of churn for not much use - splice for these small files really isn't much
of a win, even if existing userspace uses it. All callers I found do the
proper fallback, but if this turns out to be an issue the conversion can
be resurrected.
Besides x86 and powerpc I plan to eventually convert all other
architectures, although this will be a slow process, starting with the
easier ones once the infrastructure is merged. The process to convert
architectures is roughtly:
(1) ensure there is no set_fs(KERNEL_DS) left in arch specific code
(2) implement __get_kernel_nofault and __put_kernel_nofault
(3) remove the arch specific address limitation functionality
Changes since v2:
- add back the patch to support splice through read_iter/write iter
on /proc/sys/*
- entirely remove the tests that depend on set_fs. Note that for
lkdtm the maintainer (Kees) disagrees with this request from Linus
- fix a wrong check in the powerpc access_ok, and drop a few spurious
cleanups there
Changes since v1:
- drop the patch to remove the non-iter ops for /dev/zero and
/dev/null as they caused a performance regression
- don't enable user access in __get_kernel on powerpc
- xfail the set_fs() based lkdtm tests
Diffstat:
next reply other threads:[~2020-09-03 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-03 14:22 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 01/14] proc: remove a level of indentation in proc_get_inode Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 02/14] proc: cleanup the compat vs no compat file ops Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 03/14] proc: add a read_iter method to proc proc_ops Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 04/14] sysctl: Convert to iter interfaces Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 05/14] fs: don't allow kernel reads and writes without iter ops Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-01 22:38 ` Eric Biggers
2020-10-01 22:40 ` Al Viro
2020-10-02 16:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-10-09 22:06 ` Eric Biggers
2020-10-10 1:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-10-10 1:19 ` Eric Biggers
2020-10-10 1:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-10-10 1:55 ` Alexander Viro
2020-10-14 5:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 06/14] fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 07/14] uaccess: add infrastructure for kernel builds with set_fs() Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 08/14] test_bitmap: remove user bitmap tests Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 09/14] lkdtm: remove set_fs-based tests Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 10/14] x86: move PAGE_OFFSET, TASK_SIZE & friends to page_{32,64}_types.h Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 11/14] x86: make TASK_SIZE_MAX usable from assembly code Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 12/14] x86: remove address space overrides using set_fs() Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 21:30 ` David Laight
2020-09-03 23:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-04 7:59 ` David Laight
2020-09-04 2:55 ` Al Viro
2020-09-04 4:41 ` Al Viro
2020-09-04 6:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-04 7:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 13/14] powerpc: use non-set_fs based maccess routines Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:22 ` [PATCH 14/14] powerpc: remove address space overrides using set_fs() Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 15:43 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-03 15:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 15:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 16:03 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-03 14:28 ` remove the last set_fs() in common code, and remove it for x86 and powerpc v3 Al Viro
2020-09-03 14:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03 14:36 ` Al Viro
2020-09-03 14:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-09 17:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-09 18:40 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-09 21:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-10 8:04 ` David Laight
2020-09-10 8:13 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-10 9:26 ` David Laight
2020-09-10 12:26 ` David Laight
2020-09-10 15:20 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-10 15:31 ` David Laight
2020-09-10 17:15 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-10 15:16 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-10 15:44 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-03 15:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-04 6:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-09-04 17:58 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2020-09-04 18:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-04 21:01 ` David Laight
2020-09-05 7:16 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-05 10:13 ` David Laight
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