Re: [patch V3 07/12] uaccess: Provide scoped masked user access regions

From: Linus Torvalds

Date: Tue Oct 21 2025 - 11:14:37 EST


On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 at 04:30, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 20 2025 at 19:28, David Laight wrote:
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> > (I don't like the word 'masked' at all, not sure where it came from.
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> It's what Linus named it and I did not think about the name much so far.

The original implementation was a mask application, so it made sense
at the time.

We could still change it since there aren't that many users, but I'm
not sure what would be a better name...

Linus