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From: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
To: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@hpe.com>
Cc: usama.anjum@arm.com, Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] misc: sgi-gru: Remove broken page-table walks
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:53:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b20d562-4cc6-4b2e-a9c7-db45be7f25c2@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <amtB-n2ENVkXvYpt@hpe.com>

On 30/07/2026 1:22 pm, Dimitri Sivanich wrote:
> Muhammad,
> 
> I should let you know that we're currently and actively working on a
> forthcoming patch to remove the sgi-gru driver, due to security concerns.  We
> hope to submit this patch soon.
Didn't know. Thank you.

> 
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 12:12:49PM +0100, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
>> While working on MM page-table changes, I found that the SGI GRU driver
>> walks user page tables unsafely from interrupt context. This series
>> removes that path, uses the existing process-context fallback, and
>> cleans up the resulting dead code.
>>
>> Muhammad Usama Anjum (3):
>>   misc: sgi-gru: remove interrupt-context page-table walks
>>   misc: sgi-gru: remove obsolete atomic fault-handling state
>>   misc: sgi-gru: inline the user CBR status update
>>
>>  drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c  | 185 +++++++------------------------
>>  drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruprocfs.c |   1 -
>>  drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutables.h |   1 -
>>  3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 146 deletions(-)
>>
>> -- 
>> 2.47.3

-- 
Thanks,
Usama


  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-30 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-30 11:12 Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-30 11:12 ` [PATCH 1/3] misc: sgi-gru: remove interrupt-context " Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-30 11:12 ` [PATCH 2/3] misc: sgi-gru: remove obsolete atomic fault-handling state Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-30 11:12 ` [PATCH 3/3] misc: sgi-gru: inline the user CBR status update Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-30 12:22 ` [PATCH 0/3] misc: sgi-gru: Remove broken page-table walks Dimitri Sivanich
2026-07-30 12:53   ` Muhammad Usama Anjum [this message]
2026-07-30 14:08   ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-07-31 11:32   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-31 13:29     ` Dimitri Sivanich
2026-07-31 13:34       ` Muhammad Usama Anjum

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