Re: [PATCH 4/4] quota: simplify the quotactl compat handling

From: Al Viro
Date: Sun Jul 26 2020 - 12:32:23 EST


On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 06:04:01PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Fold the misaligned u64 workarounds into the main quotactl flow instead
> of implementing a separate compat syscall handler.

I can live with that (and drop the local quota-related stuff from
copy_in_user/compat_alloc_user_space elimination series). One question,
though:

> +static int compat_copy_fs_qfilestat(struct compat_fs_qfilestat __user *to,
> + struct fs_qfilestat *from)
> +{
> + if (copy_to_user(to, from, sizeof(*to)) ||
> + put_user(from->qfs_nextents, &to->qfs_nextents))
> + return -EFAULT;
> + return 0;
> +}

do we have any need of that put_user()? Note that you don't even call
that thing unless compat_need_64bit_alignment_fixup() is true. And AFAICS
all such cases are little-endian...