Linux 5.1-rc5

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Wed Apr 17 02:16:55 AEST 2019


On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 5:08 AM Martin Schwidefsky
<schwidefsky at de.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> This is not nice, would a patch like the following be acceptable?

Umm.

We actually already *have* this function.

It's called "gup_fast_permitted()" and it's used by x86-64 to verify
the proper address range. Exactly like s390 needs..

Could you please use that instead?

            Linus


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