lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2020]   [Sep]   [20]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/9] kernel: add a PF_FORCE_COMPAT flag
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 02:45:25PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Add a flag to force processing a syscall as a compat syscall. This is
> required so that in_compat_syscall() works for I/O submitted by io_uring
> helper threads on behalf of compat syscalls.

Al doesn't like this much, but my suggestion is to introduce two new
opcodes -- IORING_OP_READV32 and IORING_OP_WRITEV32. The compat code
can translate IORING_OP_READV to IORING_OP_READV32 and then the core
code can know what that user pointer is pointing to.

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2020-09-20 17:15    [W:0.195 / U:0.320 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site