Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 May 2017 00:35:21 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address limit before returning to user-mode |
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On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 08:15:49AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > And converting everything to ->read_iter()/->write_iter() means an insane > amount of code churn, not to mention coping with random bogosities in > semantics. ->read() and ->write() are going to stay around, pretty > much indefinitely.
But I don't think kernel users of them have to. I've been digging through the calllers and will send an analysis to the list in a bit.
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