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Christoph Hellwig 37c54f9bd4 kernel: set USER_DS in kthread_use_mm
Some architectures like arm64 and s390 require USER_DS to be set for
kernel threads to access user address space, which is the whole purpose of
kthread_use_mm, but other like x86 don't.  That has lead to a huge mess
where some callers are fixed up once they are tested on said
architectures, while others linger around and yet other like io_uring try
to do "clever" optimizations for what usually is just a trivial asignment
to a member in the thread_struct for most architectures.

Make kthread_use_mm set USER_DS, and kthread_unuse_mm restore to the
previous value instead.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Cc: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200404094101.672954-7-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-10 19:14:18 -07:00
arch kernel: better document the use_mm/unuse_mm API contract 2020-06-10 19:14:18 -07:00
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drivers kernel: set USER_DS in kthread_use_mm 2020-06-10 19:14:18 -07:00
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include kernel: better document the use_mm/unuse_mm API contract 2020-06-10 19:14:18 -07:00
init mm: don't include asm/pgtable.h if linux/mm.h is already included 2020-06-09 09:39:13 -07:00
ipc mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
kernel kernel: set USER_DS in kthread_use_mm 2020-06-10 19:14:18 -07:00
lib lib: test get_count_order/long in test_bitops.c 2020-06-10 19:14:18 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.