Re: [PATCH 03/10] exit: Move oops specific logic from do_exit into make_task_dead

Christoph Hellwig
2022-01-17T08:05:47Z

On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 12:59:33PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Assuming it won't be too much longer before the rest of the arches have
> set_fs/get_fs removed it looks like it makes sense to leave the
> force_uaccess_begin where it is, and just let force_uaccess_begin be
> removed when set_fs/get_fs are removed from the tree.
>
> Christoph does it look like the set_fs/get_fs removal work is going
> to stall indefinitely on some architectures? If so I think we want to
> find a way to get kernel threads to run with set_fs(USER_DS) on the
> stalled architectures. Otherwise I think we have a real hazard of
> introducing bugs that will only show up on the stalled architectures.

I really need help from the arch maintainers to finish the set_fs
removal. There have been very few arch maintainers helping with that
work (arm, arm64, parisc, m68k) in addition to the ones I did because
I have the test setups and knowledge. I'll send out another ping,
for necrotic architectures like ia64 and sh I have very little hope.