Re: [PATCH v8 1/5] mm: untag user pointers in mmap/munmap/mremap/brk

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On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:28:51 +0100 Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 04:43:59PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > There isn't a good reason to differentiate between the user address
> > space layout modification syscalls and the other memory
> > permission/attributes ones (e.g. mprotect, madvise) w.r.t. the tagged
> > address ABI. Untag the user addresses on entry to these functions.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  mm/mmap.c   | 5 +++++
> >  mm/mremap.c | 6 +-----
> >  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Andrew -- please can you pick this patch up? I'll take the rest of the
> series via arm64 once we've finished discussing the wording details.
> 

Sure, I grabbed the patch from the v9 series.

But please feel free to include this in the arm64 tree - I'll autodrop
my copy if this turns up in linux-next.




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