Re: [PATCH RFC] uaccess: user_access_begin_after_access_ok()

Al Viro
2020-06-02T16:30:53Z

On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 04:45:05AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> So vhost needs to poke at userspace *a lot* in a quick succession. It
> is thus benefitial to enable userspace access, do our thing, then
> disable. Except access_ok has already been pre-validated with all the
> relevant nospec checks, so we don't need that. Add an API to allow
> userspace access after access_ok and barrier_nospec are done.

This is the wrong way to do it, and this API is certain to be abused
elsewhere. NAK - we need to sort out vhost-related problems, but
this is not an acceptable solution. Sorry.