Re: [PATCH net-next] vhost: use "checked" versions of get_user() and put_user()

Linus Torvalds
2025-11-26T21:46:06Z

On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 at 13:43, Jon Kohler <jon@nutanix.com> wrote:
>
> Linus mentioned he might get into the mix and do a bulk
> change and kill the whole thing once and for all, so I’m
> simply trying to help knock an incremental amount of work
> off the pile in advance of that (and reap some performance
> benefits at the same time, at least on the x86 side).

So I'm definitely going to do some bulk conversion at some point, but
honestly, I'll be a lot happier if most users already self-converted
before that, and I only end up doing a "convert unmaintained old code
that nobody really cares about".

Linus