[PATCH 2/2] powerpc/spufs: stop using access_ok
Jeremy Kerr
jk at ozlabs.org
Thu Apr 30 10:39:00 AEST 2020
Hi Christophe,
> > Just use the proper non __-prefixed get/put_user variants where
> > that is not done yet.
>
> But it means you are doing the access_ok() check everytime, which is
> what is to be avoided by doing the access_ok() once then using the
> __-prefixed variant.
5 out of 8 of these are just a access_ok(); simple_read_from_buffer().
For the cases where it's multiple __put/get_user()s, the max will be 5.
(for the mbox access). Is that worth optimising the access_ok() checks?
Cheers,
Jeremy
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