On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 12:59:33PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Assuming it won't be too much longer before the rest of the arches have > set_fs/get_fs removed it looks like it makes sense to leave the > force_uaccess_begin where it is, and just let force_uaccess_begin be > removed when set_fs/get_fs are removed from the tree. > > Christoph does it look like the set_fs/get_fs removal work is going > to stall indefinitely on some architectures? If so I think we want to > find a way to get kernel threads to run with set_fs(USER_DS) on the > stalled architectures. Otherwise I think we have a real hazard of > introducing bugs that will only show up on the stalled architectures. I really need help from the arch maintainers to finish the set_fs removal. There have been very few arch maintainers helping with that work (arm, arm64, parisc, m68k) in addition to the ones I did because I have the test setups and knowledge. I'll send out another ping, for necrotic architectures like ia64 and sh I have very little hope.
