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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] vfs.git pile 11
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 21:29:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170706202927.GX10672@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170706201826.GW10672@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 09:18:26PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 12:45:36PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > 
> > +   if (unlikely(!check_copy_size(addr, bytes, false)))
> > +       return false;
> > +   else
> > +       return _copy_from_iter_full(addr, bytes, i);
> > 
> > Can these be rewritten to avoid the double-negative?
> 
> Matter of taste - I've no strong preferences here.
> 
> > +   might_fault();
> > 
> > Should this be might_sleep()? Just from reading the patch it looked
> > like you were adding might_sleep()s in the other cases.
> 
> D'oh - shouldn't have written that pull request message before the
> first cup of coffee...  might_sleep() it is, of course.

Hrm...  Said that, might_sleep() doesn't check one thing might_fault()
does - the
#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP)
        if (current->mm)
                might_lock_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
#endif
thing.  Let me think a bit...

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-06 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-06  9:12 [git pull] vfs.git pile 11 Al Viro
2017-07-06 19:45 ` Kees Cook
2017-07-06 20:18   ` Al Viro
2017-07-06 20:29     ` Al Viro [this message]
2017-07-06 21:20       ` Al Viro
2017-07-07  5:09         ` Linus Torvalds

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