Messages in this thread | | | From | David Laight <> | Subject | RE: let import_iovec deal with compat_iovecs as well | Date | Sat, 19 Sep 2020 14:24:10 +0000 |
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From: Christoph Hellwig > Sent: 18 September 2020 13:45 > > this series changes import_iovec to transparently deal with comat iovec > structures, and then cleanups up a lot of code dupliation. But to get > there it first has to fix the pre-existing bug that io_uring compat > contexts don't trigger the in_compat_syscall() check. This has so far > been relatively harmless as very little code callable from io_uring used > the check, and even that code that could be called usually wasn't.
I thought about that change while writing my import_iovec() => iovec_import() patch - and thought that the io_uring code would (as usual) cause grief.
Christoph - did you see those patches? David
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