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From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
To: Yury Norov <ynorov@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>,
	 "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	 Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	 David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>,
	Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] uaccess: minimize INLINE_COPY_USER-related ifdefery
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:00:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <acTnrMeMIfqNvObZ@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260325163313.749336-3-ynorov@nvidia.com>

On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 12:33:12PM -0400, Yury Norov wrote:
> Now that we've got the same knob selecting inline vs outline copy_to_user()
> and copy_from_user(), we can simplify the corresponding logic in the
> uaccess.h.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@nvidia.com>

Both patches are:
Tested-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>

But I can't help but think if it wouldn't be slightly better to split up
the first patch in a targeted Fixes: path that just fixes the FROM/TO
mixup, and a follow-up non-fix that actually deduplicates the two
ifdefs.

> @@ -217,11 +219,8 @@ copy_from_user(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
>  {
>  	if (!check_copy_size(to, n, false))
>  		return n;
> -#ifdef INLINE_COPY_USER
> -	return _inline_copy_from_user(to, from, n);
> -#else
> +
>  	return _copy_from_user(to, from, n);
> -#endif

Spurious extra empty line here?

Alice

  reply	other threads:[~2026-03-26  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-25 16:33 [PATCH 0/2] uaccess: unify inline vs outline copy_{from,to}_user() selection Yury Norov
2026-03-25 16:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Yury Norov
2026-03-26 13:44   ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-03-26 17:29     ` Yury Norov
2026-03-26 17:49       ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-03-25 16:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] uaccess: minimize INLINE_COPY_USER-related ifdefery Yury Norov
2026-03-26  8:00   ` Alice Ryhl [this message]
2026-03-26 14:15   ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-03-25 23:31 ` [PATCH 0/2] uaccess: unify inline vs outline copy_{from,to}_user() selection Andrew Morton

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