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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/7] powerpc/spufs: simplify spufs core dumping
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 09:01:48PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 07:49:41PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > > spin_lock(&ctx->csa.register_lock);
> > > - ret = __spufs_proxydma_info_read(ctx, buf, len, pos);
> > > + __spufs_proxydma_info_read(ctx, &info);
> > > + ret = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, len, pos, &info, sizeof(info));
> >
> > IDGI... What's that access_ok() for? If you are using simple_read_from_buffer(),
> > the damn thing goes through copy_to_user(). Why bother with separate access_ok()
> > here?
>
> I have no idea at all, this just refactors the code.

Wait a bloody minute, it's doing *what* under a spinlock?

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