Thread (2 messages) flat view 2 messages, 2 authors, 2020-05-06

Re: remove set_fs calls from the coredump code v6

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2020-05-06 06:31:42
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml

On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 03:28:50PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
We probably can.   After introducing a kernel_compat_siginfo that is
the size that userspace actually would need.

It isn't something I want to mess with until this code gets merged, as I
think the set_fs cleanups are more important.


Christoph made some good points about how ugly the #ifdefs are in
the generic copy_siginfo_to_user32 implementation.
Take a look at the series you are replying to, the magic x86 ifdefs are
entirely gone from the common code :)
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