[PATCH 10/10] powerpc: remove address space overrides using set_fs()

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Wed Sep 2 22:36:46 AEST 2020


On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 08:15:12AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> -		return 0;
>> -	return (size == 0 || size - 1 <= seg.seg - addr);
>> +	if (addr >= TASK_SIZE_MAX)
>> +		return false;
>> +	if (size == 0)
>> +		return false;
>
> __access_ok() was returning true when size == 0 up to now. Any reason to 
> return false now ?

No, this is accidental and broken.  Can you re-run your benchmark with
this fixed?


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