From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Catalin Marinas Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 07/16] mm, arm64: untag user pointers in get_vaddr_frames Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:29:34 +0100 Message-ID: <20190610142933.GC10165@c02tf0j2hf1t.cambridge.arm.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andrey Konovalov Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Vincenzo Frascino , Will Deacon , Mark Rutland , Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kees Cook , Yishai Hadas , Felix Kuehling , Alexander Deucher , Christian Koenig , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Jens Wiklander List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 06:55:09PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote: > This patch is a part of a series that extends arm64 kernel ABI to allow to > pass tagged user pointers (with the top byte set to something else other > than 0x00) as syscall arguments. > > get_vaddr_frames uses provided user pointers for vma lookups, which can > only by done with untagged pointers. Instead of locating and changing > all callers of this function, perform untagging in it. > > Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov Acked-by: Catalin Marinas