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From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	tytso@mit.edu, hch@lst.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] random: convert to using fops->read_iter()
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 11:14:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YodcCV96t13O0Trl@zx2c4.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YocGyl8mmG84tQD4@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk>

Hi Al,

On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 03:11:06AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> >  SYSCALL_DEFINE3(getrandom, char __user *, ubuf, size_t, len,
> >  unsigned int, flags) { +	struct iovec iov = { .iov_base = ubuf };
> >  +	struct iov_iter iter;
> 
> 	import_single_range(READ, ubuf, len, &iov, &iter)
> 
> (note, BTW, that this'll cap len)

I'll incorporate this and send a v4. import_single_range does an
access_ok(), but I would hope that copy_to_iter() also does similar
checks. Does that make this less efficient?

Jason

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-05-20  9:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-19 23:31 [PATCHSET v2 0/2] Fix splice from random/urandom Jens Axboe
2022-05-19 23:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] random: convert to using fops->read_iter() Jens Axboe
2022-05-20  3:11   ` Al Viro
2022-05-20  3:26     ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-20  9:14     ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
2022-05-19 23:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] random: wire up fops->splice_read_iter() Jens Axboe
2022-05-19 23:56 ` [PATCHSET v2 0/2] Fix splice from random/urandom Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-20  0:00   ` Jens Axboe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-05-19 19:31 [PATCHSET " Jens Axboe
2022-05-19 19:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] random: convert to using fops->read_iter() Jens Axboe
2022-05-19 23:12   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-19 23:20     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-19 23:21       ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-19 23:21         ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-19 23:21     ` Jens Axboe

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