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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 13/18] uaccess: generalize access_ok()
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 2:17 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> There are many different ways that access_ok() is defined across
> architectures, but in the end, they all just compare against the
> user_addr_max() value or they accept anything.
>
> Provide one definition that works for most architectures, checking
> against TASK_SIZE_MAX for user processes or skipping the check inside
> of uaccess_kernel() sections.
>
> For architectures without CONFIG_SET_FS(), this should be the fastest
> check, as it comes down to a single comparison of a pointer against a
> compile-time constant, while the architecture specific versions tend to
> do something more complex for historic reasons or get something wrong.
>
> Type checking for __user annotations is handled inconsistently across
> architectures, but this is easily simplified as well by using an inline
> function that takes a 'const void __user *' argument. A handful of
> callers need an extra __user annotation for this.
>
> Some architectures had trick to use 33-bit or 65-bit arithmetic on the
> addresses to calculate the overflow, however this simpler version uses
> fewer registers, which means it can produce better object code in the
> end despite needing a second (statically predicted) branch.
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> [arm64, asm-generic]
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

>  arch/m68k/Kconfig.cpu                 |  1 +
>  arch/m68k/include/asm/uaccess.h       | 19 +--------

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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