Linus Torvalds writes:
> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Linus Torvalds
> wrote:
>>
>>> Patch coming.
>>
>> I'm not seeing a patch, so I did my own. But it's _entirely_ untested.
>> Does the attached fix things for you?
>
> Oh, I see you sent a patch to the list but didn't cc me like in this thr
Linus Torvalds writes:
> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Linus Torvalds
> wrote:
>>
>> The copy_flock_fields() macro has the arguments in order ,
>> but all the users seem to do it the other way around.
>
> Looking more at it, I think I'd also like copy_flock_fields() to take
> pointer arguments
On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 10:35:41AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Comments? Michael, does this work for your case?
Looks sane...
> +++ b/fs/fcntl.c
> @@ -520,50 +520,50 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(fcntl64, unsigned int, fd, unsigned
> int, cmd,
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> /* careful - don't use anywh
On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
>
> The copy_flock_fields() macro has the arguments in order ,
> but all the users seem to do it the other way around.
Looking more at it, I think I'd also like copy_flock_fields() to take
pointer arguments, to match all the code around it (bo
On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
>
>> Patch coming.
>
> I'm not seeing a patch, so I did my own. But it's _entirely_ untested.
> Does the attached fix things for you?
Oh, I see you sent a patch to the list but didn't cc me like in this thread.
Hmm. Al - I'd like to add the "
On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 5:46 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Al Viro writes:
>
>>
>> Switch flock copyin/copyout primitives to copy_{from,to}_user()
>> (2017-06-26 23:52:44 -0400)
>
> This commit seems to have broken networking on a bunch of my PPC
> machines (64-bit kernel, 32-bit userspace).
B
Al Viro writes:
> vfs.git topology is rather convoluted this cycle, so
> I'm afraid that it'll take more pull requests than usual ;-/
>
> The first pile is #work.misc-set_fs. Assorted getting rid
> of cargo-culted access_ok(), cargo-culted set_fs() and
> field-by-field copyouts. The same
