On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 04:34:29PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Use in compat_syscall to import either native or the compat iovecs, and > remove the now superflous compat_import_iovec, which removes the need for > special compat logic in most callers. Only io_uring needs special > treatment given that it can call import_iovec from kernel threads acting > on behalf of native or compat syscalls. Expose the low-level > __import_iovec helper and use it in io_uring to explicitly pick a iovec > layout. fs/aio.c part is not obvious... Might be better to use __import_iovec() there as well and leave the rest of aio.c changes to followup. > --- a/lib/iov_iter.c > +++ b/lib/iov_iter.c > @@ -1683,7 +1683,7 @@ static int compat_copy_iovecs_from_user(struct iovec *iov, > return ret; > } > > -static ssize_t __import_iovec(int type, const struct iovec __user *uvector, > +ssize_t __import_iovec(int type, const struct iovec __user *uvector, > unsigned nr_segs, unsigned fast_segs, struct iovec **iovp, > struct iov_iter *i, bool compat) > { Don't make it static in the first place, perhaps?