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From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] powerpc/32s: prepare prevent_user_access() for user_access_end()
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Date:   Thu, 23 Jan 2020 21:59:07 +1100
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Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> writes:
> In preparation of implementing user_access_begin and friends
> on powerpc, the book3s/32 version of prevent_user_access() need
> to be prepared for user_access_end().
>
> user_access_end() doesn't provide the address and size which
> were passed to user_access_begin(), required by prevent_user_access()
> to know which segment to modify.
>
> The list of segments which where unprotected by allow_user_access()
> are available in current->kuap. But we don't want prevent_user_access()
> to read this all the time, especially everytime it is 0 (for instance
> because the access was not a write access).
>
> Implement a special direction case named KUAP_SELF. In this case only,
> the addr and end are retrieved from current->kuap.

Can we call it KUAP_CURRENT?

ie. "use the KUAP state in current"

cheers