Thread (75 messages) 75 messages, 14 authors, 2022-02-25

Re: [PATCH v2 03/18] nds32: fix access_ok() checks in get/put_user

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2022-02-18 06:25:45
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 02:13:17PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

The get_user()/put_user() functions are meant to check for
access_ok(), while the __get_user()/__put_user() functions
don't.

This broke in 4.19 for nds32, when it gained an extraneous
check in __get_user(), but lost the check it needs in
__put_user().
Looks good:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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