[PATCH 18/25] powerpc: check key protection for user page access
Balbir Singh
bsingharora at gmail.com
Thu Oct 19 06:57:32 AEDT 2017
On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 15:45:06 -0700
Ram Pai <linuxram at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Make sure that the kernel does not access user pages without
> checking their key-protection.
>
Why? This makes the routines AMR/thread specific? Looks like
x86 does this as well, but these routines are used by GUP from
the kernel.
Balbir Singh.
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