Re: [PATCH backport v3.15..v4.1 0/2] MIPS: uaccess: EVA fixes

[Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 08:29:02PM +0000, James Hogan wrote:
> These two backports fix bugs in the MIPS uaccess functions for MIPS
> Enhanced Virtual Addressing (EVA), which were added in v3.15.
> 
> The upstream commits don't work directly when applied to kernels older
> than v4.2 where the eva_kernel_access() function was introduced, so we
> instead use segment_eq() directly, along with config_enabled(CONFIG_EVA)
> where necessary to avoid module symbol errors.
>

Thanks James, I'll queue both for the next 3.16 kernel.

Cheers,
--
Luís


> James Hogan (2):
>   MIPS: uaccess: Take EVA into account in __copy_from_user()
>   MIPS: uaccess: Take EVA into account in [__]clear_user
> 
>  arch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  arch/mips/kernel/mips_ksyms.c   |  2 ++
>  arch/mips/lib/memset.S          |  2 ++
>  3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
> Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
> Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <leonid.yegoshin@imgtec.com>
> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
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