Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:18:31 -0800 (PST) | | Subject | Re: [BUG] binfmt_elf: get_user() called in vma_dump_size() after set_fs(KERNEL_DS) | | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:07:17 -0800 (PST)
> set_fs is quite cheap at least on most machines. So a pair of set_fs calls > around that get_user call doesn't seem so bad. OTOH, on the machines where > this actually matters at all (maybe just sparc, arm, s390?) it is > presumably (much?) more costly. But it seems like the best solution, and > certainly is straightforward.
On sparc set_fs() is just a privileged register write, so pretty cheap and definitely less expensive than get_user_pages() :-)
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