Re: Linux 5.1-rc5

Linus Torvalds
2019-04-16T16:16:55Z

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 5:08 AM Martin Schwidefsky
<schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> wrote:
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> This is not nice, would a patch like the following be acceptable?

Umm.

We actually already *have* this function.

It's called "gup_fast_permitted()" and it's used by x86-64 to verify
the proper address range. Exactly like s390 needs..

Could you please use that instead?

Linus