Hi Christoph,
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 09:57:52AM +0200, Martijn Coenen wrote:
>> On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 2:10 PM, kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > drivers/android/binder.o: In function `binder_thread_write':
>> >>> binder.c:(.text+0x6a16): undefined reference to `__get_user_bad'
>>
>> Looks like m68k doesn't support 64-bit get_user(). I could just have
>> binder depend on !CONFIG_M68K, but there may be other architectures
>> still that don't support this. Another alternative would be to
>> whitelist the architectures Android supports - eg arm, arm64, x86,
>> x86_64. But I'm not sure if arch-limited drivers are considered bad
>> form. Does anybody have suggestions for how to deal with this?
>
> The proper fix is to just support 640bit get/put_user on m68k instead
I hope we'll never need 640bit support in {get,put}_user() ;-)
> of working around this.
Patch sent.
BTW, sh also doesn't seem to have 64-bit get_user().
There may be others.
BTW2, does the Android Binder need to care about endianness when talking
to userspace?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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