Re: [PATCH v14 1/4] asm-generic,arm64: create task variant of access_ok

Oleg Nesterov
2023-03-29T16:09:11Z

On 03/29, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023, at 17:15, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > This look as if access_ok() or __access_ok() doesn't depend on task, but
> > this is not true in general. Say, TASK_SIZE_MAX can check is_32bit_task()
> > test_thread_flag(TIF_32BIT...) and this uses "current".
> >
> > Again, we probably do not care, but I don't like the fact task_access_ok()
> > looks as if task_access_ok(task) returns the same result as "task" calling
> > access_ok().
>
> I think the idea of TASK_SIZE_MAX is that it is a compile-time constant and in fact independent of current, while TASK_SIZE
> takes TIF_32BIT into account.

Say, arch/loongarch defines TASK_SIZE which depends on test_thread_flag(TIF_32BIT_ADDR)
but it doesn't define TASK_SIZE_MAX, so __access_ok() will use TASK_SIZE.

Oleg.