Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 May 2020 17:00:03 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: improve msg_control kernel vs user pointer handling | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 13:59:10 +0200
> this series replace the msg_control in the kernel msghdr structure > with an anonymous union and separate fields for kernel vs user > pointers. In addition to helping a bit with type safety and reducing > sparse warnings, this also allows to remove the set_fs() in > kernel_recvmsg, helping with an eventual entire removal of set_fs().
Looks good. Things actually used to be a lot worse in the original compat code but Al Viro cleaned it up into the state it is in right now.
Series applied to net-next, thanks!
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