Thread (39 messages) 39 messages, 4 authors, 2020-08-27

Re: [PATCH 02/11] fs: don't allow kernel reads and writes without iter ops

From: Kees Cook <hidden>
Date: 2020-08-18 19:34:26
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linuxppc-dev, lkml

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 09:32:03AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Don't allow calling ->read or ->write with set_fs as a preparation for
killing off set_fs.  All the instances that we use kernel_read/write on
are using the iter ops already.

If a file has both the regular ->read/->write methods and the iter
variants those could have different semantics for messed up enough
drivers.  Also fails the kernel access to them in that case.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <redacted>

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Kees Cook
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