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Commit 37c54f9b authored by Christoph Hellwig's avatar Christoph Hellwig Committed by Linus Torvalds
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kernel: set USER_DS in kthread_use_mm



Some architectures like arm64 and s390 require USER_DS to be set for
kernel threads to access user address space, which is the whole purpose of
kthread_use_mm, but other like x86 don't.  That has lead to a huge mess
where some callers are fixed up once they are tested on said
architectures, while others linger around and yet other like io_uring try
to do "clever" optimizations for what usually is just a trivial asignment
to a member in the thread_struct for most architectures.

Make kthread_use_mm set USER_DS, and kthread_unuse_mm restore to the
previous value instead.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Cc: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200404094101.672954-7-hch@lst.de


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f5678e7f
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