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This warning was there to catch any architectures that still use
CONFIG_SET_FS, and that would mis-use iov_iter_init() for anything that
wasn't a proper user space pointer. So that
WARN_ON_ONCE(uaccess_kernel());
makes perfect conceptual sense: you really shouldn't use a kernel
pointer with set_fs(KERNEL_DS) and then pass it to iov_iter_init().
HOWEVER.
Guenter Roeck reports that this warning actually triggers in no-mmu
configurations of both ARM and m68k. And the reason isn't that they
pass in a kernel pointer under set_fs(KERNEL_DS) at all: the reason is
that in those configurations, "uaccess_kernel()" is simply not reliable.
Those no-mmu setups set USER_DS and KERNEL_DS to the same values, so you
can't test for the difference.
In particular, the no-mmu case for ARM does
#define USER_DS KERNEL_DS
#define uaccess_kernel() (true)
so USER_DS and KERNEL_DS have the same value, and uaccess_kernel() is
always trivially true.
The m68k case is slightly different and not quite as obvious. It does
(spread out over multiple header files just to be extra exciting:
asm/processor.h, asm/segment.h and asm-generic/uaccess.h):
#define TASK_SIZE (0xFFFFFFFFUL)
#define USER_DS MAKE_MM_SEG(TASK_SIZE)
#define KERNEL_DS MAKE_MM_SEG(~0UL)
#define get_fs() (current_thread_info()->addr_limit)
#define uaccess_kernel() (get_fs().seg == KERNEL_DS.seg)
but the end result is the same: uaccess_kernel() will always be true,
because USER_DS and KERNEL_DS end up having the same value, even if that
value is defined differently.
This is very arguably a misfeature in those implementations, but in the
end we don't really care. All modern architectures have gotten rid of
set_fs() already, and generic kernel code never uses it. And while the
sanity check was a nice idea, an architecture would have to go the extra
mile to actually break this.
So this well-intentioned warning isn't really all that likely to find
anything but these known false positives, and as such just isn't worth
maintaining.
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Fixes:
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Linux kernel
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.