Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 May 2015 14:05:13 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: VERIFY_READ/WRITE in uaccess.h? |
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On 05/10/2015 02:44 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Hi! > > While cleaning up UML's uaccess code I've noticed that not a single architecture > is using VERIFY_READ/WRITE in access_ok(). > One exception is UML, it uses the access type in one check which is in vain anyways. > Also asm-generic/uaccess.h drops the type parameter silently. > > Why do we still carry it around? > > Is it because we want it for some future architecture which can benefit > from it or just because nobody cared enough to do a tree-wide cleanup? > I fear it is the latter... ;) >
Or, perhaps, nobody noticed?
-hpa
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