From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
Cc: "'Al Viro'" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"'Will Deacon'" <will@kernel.org>,
"'Catalin Marinas'" <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
"'Mark Rutland'" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
"'Pavel Tatashin'" <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: R: [PATCH] arm64: fix missing include in asm uaccess.h
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:48:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201112164809.81f1c14f5d1f1d998f279287@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001d6b7c8$bfed23e0$3fc76ba0$@gmail.com>
On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 02:19:48 +0100 <ansuelsmth@gmail.com> wrote:
> > <asm/uaccess.h> ok ? */
> > include/linux/uaccess.h:11:#include <asm/uaccess.h>
> >
> > The last one is the only such include that should exist; drivers/s390 one
> > is obviously a false positive. And IMO the right thing to do is to
> > replace the remaining arch/* instances with includes of linux/uaccess.h.
> >
> > All of those are asking for trouble; any change moving e.g. a common
> > variant of some primitive into linux/uaccess.h might end up breaking
> > those.
>
> Thx for the quick response. I found this error while working on a qcom
> driver that
> use this include. I can confirm that by using linux/uaccess.h the problem is
> solved.
Thanks, all.
I queued up the below for sending to Linus Real Soon Now. Please note
that I added the cc:stable, because the offending df325e05a6 ("arm64:
Validate tagged addresses in access_ok() called from kernel threads")
had a cc:stable.
From: Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
Subject: arm64: fix missing include in asm/uaccess.h
Fix a compilation error as PF_KTHREAD is defined in linux/sched.h and this
is missing.
[viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk: use linux/uaccess.h]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201111005826.GY3576660@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201111004440.8783-1-ansuelsmth@gmail.com
Fixes: df325e05a682 ("arm64: Validate tagged addresses in access_ok() called from kernel threads")
Signed-off-by: Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h~arm64-fix-missing-include-in-asm-uaccessh
+++ a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
#ifndef __ASM_UACCESS_H
#define __ASM_UACCESS_H
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
+
#include <asm/alternative.h>
#include <asm/kernel-pgtable.h>
#include <asm/sysreg.h>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-13 0:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-11 0:44 Ansuel Smith
2020-11-11 0:58 ` Al Viro
2020-11-11 1:09 ` Al Viro
2020-11-11 1:19 ` R: " ansuelsmth
2020-11-13 0:48 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2020-11-13 2:40 ` Al Viro
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