Re: [PATCH v6 10/11] mm: add a user_virt_to_phys symbol

Kees Cook
2017-09-08T15:44:25Z

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:55 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 11:36:08AM -0600, Tycho Andersen wrote:
>> We need someting like this for testing XPFO. Since it's architecture
>> specific, putting it in the test code is slightly awkward, so let's make it
>> an arch-specific symbol and export it for use in LKDTM.
>
> We really should not add an export for this.
>
> I think you'll want to just open code it in your test module.

Isn't that going to be fragile? Why not an export?

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security