Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> writes:
> +
> +static struct async_thread *
> +pick_ready_cachemiss_thread(struct async_head *ah)
The cachemiss names are confusing. I assume that's just a left over
from Tux?
> +
> + memset(atom->args, 0, sizeof(atom->args));
> +
> + ret |= __get_user(arg_ptr, &uatom->arg_ptr[0]);
> + if (!arg_ptr)
> + return ret;
> + if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, arg_ptr, sizeof(*arg_ptr)))
> + return -EFAULT;
It's a little unclear why you do that many individual access_ok()s.
And why is the target constant sized anyways?
+ /*
+ * Lock down the ring. Note: user-space should not munlock() this,
+ * because if the ring pages get swapped out then the async
+ * completion code might return a -EFAULT instead of the expected
+ * completion. (the kernel safely handles that case too, so this
+ * isnt a security problem.)
+ *
+ * mlock() is better here because it gets resource-accounted
+ * properly, and even unprivileged userspace has a few pages
+ * of mlock-able memory available. (which is more than enough
+ * for the completion-pointers ringbuffer)
+ */
If it's only a few pages you don't need any resource accounting.
If it's more then it's nasty to steal the users quota.
I think plain gup() would be better.
-Andi
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