Thread (72 messages) 72 messages, 9 authors, 2019-06-12

Re: [PATCH v16 15/16] vfio/type1, arm64: untag user pointers in vaddr_get_pfn

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date: 2019-06-12 10:39:21
Also in: amd-gfx, dri-devel, kvm, linux-kselftest, linux-media, linux-mm, linux-rdma, lkml

On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 06:55:17PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
This patch is a part of a series that extends arm64 kernel ABI to allow to
pass tagged user pointers (with the top byte set to something else other
than 0x00) as syscall arguments.

vaddr_get_pfn() uses provided user pointers for vma lookups, which can
only by done with untagged pointers.

Untag user pointers in this function.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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