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SubjectRe: [PATCH 04/20] FIEMAP: don't bother with access_ok()
On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 12:02:41AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 12:45:41AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> >
> > we use copy_to_user() on that thing anyway (and always had).
>
> I already have this patch in this series:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20200507145924.GA28854@lst.de/T/#t
>
> which is waiting to be picked up [1], and also has some chance for conflicts
> due to changes next to the access_ok.
>
> [1] except for the first two patches, which Ted plans to send for 5.7

I can drop this commit, of course, it's not a prereq for anything else in there.
Or I could pick your series into never-rebased branch, but it would complicate
the life wrt ext4 tree - up to you and Ted...

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