On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 03:20:01PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 2:58 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Oh, er, why does get_arg_page() even need FOLL_FORCE? This is writing the > > new stack contents to the nascent brpm->vma, which was newly allocated > > with VM_STACK_FLAGS, which an arch can override, but they all appear to include > > VM_WRITE | VM_MAYWRITE. > > Yeah, it does seem entirely superfluous. > > It's been there since the very beginning (although in that original > commit b6a2fea39318 it was there as a '1' to the 'force' argument to > get_user_pages()). > > I *think* it can be just removed. But as long as it exists, it should > most definitely not be renamed to FOLL_PTRACE. > > There's a slight worry that it currently hides some other setup issue > that makes it matter, since it's been that way so long, but I can't > see what it is. My test system boots happily with it removed. I'll throw it into -next and see if anything melts... -- Kees Cook
