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Message-ID: <20170509085659.GA32555@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 01:56:59 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
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	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address
 limit before returning to user-mode

On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 08:45:22AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> We only have ~115 code blocks in the kernel that set/restore KERNEL_DS, it would 
> be a pity to add a runtime check to every system call ...

I think we should simply strive to remove all of them that aren't
in core scheduler / arch code.  Basically evetyytime we do the

	oldfs = get_fs();
	set_fs(KERNEL_DS); 
	..
	set_fs(oldfs);

trick we're doing something wrong, and there should always be better
ways to archive it.  E.g. using iov_iter with a ITER_KVEC type
consistently would already remove most of them.

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