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
next prev parent 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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