[patch V3 12/12] select: Convert to scoped masked user access

Peter Zijlstra peterz at infradead.org
Fri Oct 17 21:35:54 AEDT 2025


On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 12:09:18PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> 
> Replace the open coded implementation with the scoped masked user access
> guard.
> 
> No functional change intended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
> Cc: linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org
> ---
> V3: Adopt to scope changes
> ---
>  fs/select.c |   12 ++++--------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> ---
> --- a/fs/select.c
> +++ b/fs/select.c
> @@ -776,17 +776,13 @@ static inline int get_sigset_argpack(str
>  {
>  	// the path is hot enough for overhead of copy_from_user() to matter
>  	if (from) {
> -		if (can_do_masked_user_access())
> -			from = masked_user_access_begin(from);
> -		else if (!user_read_access_begin(from, sizeof(*from)))
> -			return -EFAULT;
> -		unsafe_get_user(to->p, &from->p, Efault);
> -		unsafe_get_user(to->size, &from->size, Efault);
> -		user_read_access_end();
> +		scoped_masked_user_rw_access(from, Efault) {

Should this not be: scoped_masked_user_read_access() ?

> +			unsafe_get_user(to->p, &from->p, Efault);
> +			unsafe_get_user(to->size, &from->size, Efault);
> +		}
>  	}
>  	return 0;
>  Efault:
> -	user_read_access_end();
>  	return -EFAULT;
>  }
>  
> 


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