The patch titled Subject: drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c: use in_compat_syscall() to check for compat callers has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is efivars-use-in_compat_syscall-to-check-for-compat-callers.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/efivars-use-in_compat_syscall-to-check-for-compat-callers.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/efivars-use-in_compat_syscall-to-check-for-compat-callers.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c: use in_compat_syscall() to check for compat callers This should make no difference on any architecture, as x86's historical is_compat_task behavior really did check whether the calling syscall was a compat syscall. x86's is_compat_task is going away, though. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c~efivars-use-in_compat_syscall-to-check-for-compat-callers drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c~efivars-use-in_compat_syscall-to-check-for-compat-callers +++ a/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ sanity_check(struct efi_variable *var, e static inline bool is_compat(void) { - if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPAT) && is_compat_task()) + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPAT) && in_compat_syscall()) return true; return false; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from luto@xxxxxxxxxx are compat-add-in_compat_syscall-to-ask-whether-were-in-a-compat-syscall.patch sparc-compat-provide-an-accurate-in_compat_syscall-implementation.patch sparc-syscall-fix-syscall_get_arch.patch seccomp-check-in_compat_syscall-not-is_compat_task-in-strict-mode.patch ptrace-in-peek_siginfo-check-syscall-bitness-not-task-bitness.patch auditsc-for-seccomp-events-log-syscall-compat-state-using-in_compat_syscall.patch staging-lustre-switch-from-is_compat_task-to-in_compat_syscall.patch ext4-in-ext4_dir_llseek-check-syscall-bitness-directly.patch net-sctp-use-in_compat_syscall-for-sctp_getsockopt_connectx3.patch net-xfrm_user-use-in_compat_syscall-to-deny-compat-syscalls.patch firewire-use-in_compat_syscall-to-check-ioctl-compatness.patch efivars-use-in_compat_syscall-to-check-for-compat-callers.patch amdkfd-use-in_compat_syscall-to-check-open-caller-type.patch input-redefine-input_compat_test-as-in_compat_syscall.patch uhid-check-write-bitness-using-in_compat_syscall.patch x86-compat-remove-is_compat_task.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html