On 05/10/2015 02:44 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Hi! > > While cleaning up UML's uaccess code I've noticed that not a single architecture > is using VERIFY_READ/WRITE in access_ok(). > One exception is UML, it uses the access type in one check which is in vain anyways. > Also asm-generic/uaccess.h drops the type parameter silently. > > Why do we still carry it around? > > Is it because we want it for some future architecture which can benefit > from it or just because nobody cared enough to do a tree-wide cleanup? > I fear it is the latter... ;) > Or, perhaps, nobody noticed? -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
