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SubjectRe: Question on "uaccess: Add strict non-pagefault kernel-space read function"
On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 04:20:24PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> With crazy old functions I presume you mean the old bpf_probe_read()
> which is mapped to BPF_FUNC_probe_read helper or something else entirely?

I couldn't care less about bpf, this is about the kernel API.

What I mean is that your new probe_kernel_read_strict and
strncpy_from_unsafe_strict helpers are good and useful. But for this
to actually make sense we need to get rid of the non-strict versions,
and we also need to get rid of some of the weak alias magic.

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