From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] Clean up kernel_read/kernel_write
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2020 04:47:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201003034756.GK3421308@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201003025534.21045-1-willy@infradead.org>
On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 03:55:21AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> Linus asked that NULL pos be allowed to kernel_write() / kernel_read().
> This set of patches (against Al's for-next tree) does that in the first
> two patches, and then converts many of the users of kernel_write() /
> kernel_read() to use a NULL pointer. I test-compiled as many as I could.
OK, applied, will push if it survives local beating.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-03 3:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-03 2:55 [PATCH 00/13] Clean up kernel_read/kernel_write Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-10-03 2:55 ` [PATCH 01/13] fs: Allow a NULL pos pointer to __kernel_write Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-10-15 17:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-03 2:55 ` [PATCH 02/13] fs: Allow a NULL pos pointer to __kernel_read Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-10-15 17:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-03 2:55 ` [PATCH 03/13] fs/acct: Pass a NULL pointer to __kernel_write Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-10-03 2:55 ` [PATCH 04/13] um/mconsole: Pass a NULL pointer to kernel_read Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-10-03 2:55 ` [PATCH 05/13] x86/aout: " Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-10-03 2:55 ` [PATCH 06/13] aout: " Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-10-03 2:55 ` [PATCH 07/13] binfmt_flat: " Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-10-03 2:55 ` [PATCH 08/13] exec: " Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-10-03 2:55 ` [PATCH 09/13] bpfilter: Pass a NULL pointer to kernel_read and kernel_write Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-10-03 2:55 ` [PATCH 10/13] keys: " Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-10-03 2:55 ` [PATCH 11/13] target: Pass a NULL pointer to kernel_write Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-10-03 2:55 ` [PATCH 12/13] proc: " Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-10-03 2:55 ` [PATCH 13/13] usermode: " Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-10-03 3:47 ` Al Viro [this message]
2020-10-09 22:07 ` [PATCH 00/13] Clean up kernel_read/kernel_write Eric Biggers
2020-10-15 17:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-15 18:23 ` Al Viro
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