On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 12:02:41AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 12:45:41AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > we use copy_to_user() on that thing anyway (and always had). > > I already have this patch in this series: > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20200507145924.GA28854@xxxxxx/T/#t > > which is waiting to be picked up [1], and also has some chance for conflicts > due to changes next to the access_ok. > > [1] except for the first two patches, which Ted plans to send for 5.7 I can drop this commit, of course, it's not a prereq for anything else in there. Or I could pick your series into never-rebased branch, but it would complicate the life wrt ext4 tree - up to you and Ted...