Pull misc compat stuff updates from Al Viro:
"This part is basically untangling various compat stuff. Compat
syscalls moved to their native counterparts, getting rid of quite a
bit of double-copying and/or set_fs() uses. A lot of field-by-field
copyin/copyout killed off.
- kernel/compat.c is much closer to containing just the
copyin/copyout of compat structs. Not all compat syscalls are gone
from it yet, but it's getting there.
- ipc/compat_mq.c killed off completely.
- block/compat_ioctl.c cleaned up; floppy compat ioctls moved to
drivers/block/floppy.c where they belong. Yes, there are several
drivers that implement some of the same ioctls. Some are m68k and
one is 32bit-only pmac. drivers/block/floppy.c is the only one in
that bunch that can be built on biarch"
* 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
mqueue: move compat syscalls to native ones
usbdevfs: get rid of field-by-field copyin
compat_hdio_ioctl: get rid of set_fs()
take floppy compat ioctls to sodding floppy.c
ipmi: get rid of field-by-field __get_user()
ipmi: get COMPAT_IPMICTL_RECEIVE_MSG in sync with the native one
rt_sigtimedwait(): move compat to native
select: switch compat_{get,put}_fd_set() to compat_{get,put}_bitmap()
put_compat_rusage(): switch to copy_to_user()
sigpending(): move compat to native
getrlimit()/setrlimit(): move compat to native
times(2): move compat to native
compat_{get,put}_bitmap(): use unsafe_{get,put}_user()
fb_get_fscreeninfo(): don't bother with do_fb_ioctl()
do_sigaltstack(): lift copying to/from userland into callers
take compat_sys_old_getrlimit() to native syscall
trim __ARCH_WANT_SYS_OLD_GETRLIMIT
Pull timer-related user access updates from Al Viro:
"Continuation of timers-related stuff (there had been more, but my
parts of that series are already merged via timers/core). This is more
of y2038 work by Deepa Dinamani, partially disrupted by the
unification of native and compat timers-related syscalls"
* 'timers-compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
posix_clocks: Use get_itimerspec64() and put_itimerspec64()
timerfd: Use get_itimerspec64() and put_itimerspec64()
nanosleep: Use get_timespec64() and put_timespec64()
posix-timers: Use get_timespec64() and put_timespec64()
posix-stubs: Conditionally include COMPAT_SYS_NI defines
time: introduce {get,put}_itimerspec64
time: add get_timespec64 and put_timespec64
Pull wait syscall updates from Al Viro:
"Consolidating sys_wait* and compat counterparts.
Gets rid of set_fs()/double-copy mess, simplifies the whole thing
(lifting the copyouts to the syscalls means less headache in the part
that does actual work - fewer failure exits, to start with), gets rid
of the overhead of field-by-field __put_user()"
* 'work.sys_wait' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
osf_wait4: switch to kernel_wait4()
waitid(): switch copyout of siginfo to unsafe_put_user()
wait_task_zombie: consolidate info logics
kill wait_noreap_copyout()
lift getrusage() from wait_noreap_copyout()
waitid(2): leave copyout of siginfo to syscall itself
kernel_wait4()/kernel_waitid(): delay copying status to userland
wait4(2)/waitid(2): separate copying rusage to userland
move compat wait4 and waitid next to native variants
As we change the user space type for the timerfd and posix timer
functions to newer data types, we need some form of conversion
helpers to avoid duplicating that logic.
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add helper functions to convert between struct timespec64 and
struct timespec at userspace boundaries.
This is a preparatory patch to use timespec64 as the basic type
internally in the kernel as timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit systems.
The patch helps the cause by containing all data conversions at the
userspace boundaries within these functions.
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Move them to the native implementations and get rid of the set_fs() hackery.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170607084241.28657-13-viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
get rid of set_fs(), sanitize compat copyin/copyout.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170607084241.28657-12-viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
... and get rid of set_fs() in there
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170607084241.28657-11-viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
... and get rid of set_fs() in there
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170607084241.28657-10-viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Get rid of set_fs() mess and sanitize compat_{get,put}_timex(),
while we are at it.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170607084241.28657-9-viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Turn restart_block.nanosleep.{rmtp,compat_rmtp} into a tagged union (kind =
1 -> native, kind = 2 -> compat, kind = 0 -> nothing) and make the places
doing actual copyout handle compat as well as native (that will become a
helper in the next commit). Result: compat wrappers, messing with
reassignments, etc. are gone.
[ tglx: Folded in a variant of Peter Zijlstras enum patch ]
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170607084241.28657-6-viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Store the pointer to the timespec which gets updated with the remaining
time in the restart block and remove the function argument.
[ tglx: Added changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170607084241.28657-3-viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines. Replace uses of
struct timespec with struct timespec64 in the kernel.
The syscall interfaces themselves will be changed in a separate series.
Note that the restart_block parameter for nanosleep has also been left
unchanged and will be part of syscall series noted above.
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490555058-4603-8-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:
PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*<asm/uaccess.h>'
sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include <linux/uaccess.h>!" \
$(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)
to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.
Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some embedded systems have no use for them. This removes about
25KB from the kernel binary size when configured out.
Corresponding syscalls are routed to a stub logging the attempt to
use those syscalls which should be enough of a clue if they were
disabled without proper consideration. They are: timer_create,
timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, timer_settime, timer_delete,
clock_adjtime, setitimer, getitimer, alarm.
The clock_settime, clock_gettime, clock_getres and clock_nanosleep
syscalls are replaced by simple wrappers compatible with CLOCK_REALTIME,
CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only which should cover the vast
majority of use cases with very little code.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Cc: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478841010-28605-7-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
In the functions compat_get_bitmap() and compat_put_bitmap() the
variable nr_compat_longs stores how many compat_ulong_t words should be
copied in a loop.
The copy loop itself is this:
if (nr_compat_longs-- > 0) {
if (__get_user(um, umask)) return -EFAULT;
} else {
um = 0;
}
Since nr_compat_longs gets unconditionally decremented in each loop and
since it's type is unsigned this could theoretically lead to out of
bounds accesses to userspace if nr_compat_longs wraps around to
(unsigned)(-1).
Although the callers currently do not trigger out-of-bounds accesses, we
should better implement the loop in a safe way to completely avoid such
warp-arounds.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
If an attacker can cause a controlled kernel stack overflow, overwriting
the restart block is a very juicy exploit target. This is because the
restart_block is held in the same memory allocation as the kernel stack.
Moving the restart block to struct task_struct prevents this exploit by
making the restart_block harder to locate.
Note that there are other fields in thread_info that are also easy
targets, at least on some architectures.
It's also a decent simplification, since the restart code is more or less
identical on all architectures.
[james.hogan@imgtec.com: metag: align thread_info::supervisor_stack]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Cc: Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The error handling in compat_sys_nanosleep() is correct, but
completely non obvious. Document it and restrict it to the
-ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK return value for clarity.
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Pull compat time conversion changes from Peter Anvin:
"Despite the branch name this is really neither an x86 nor an
x32-specific patchset, although it the implementation of the
discussions that followed the x32 security hole a few months ago.
This removes get/put_compat_timespec/val() and replaces them with
compat_get/put_timespec/val() which are savvy as to the current status
of COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME.
It removes several unused and/or incorrect/misleading functions (like
compat_put_timeval_convert which doesn't in fact do any conversion)
and also replaces several open-coded implementations what is now
called compat_convert_timespec() with that function"
* 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
compat: Fix sparse address space warnings
compat: Get rid of (get|put)_compat_time(val|spec)
In order to allow the COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE macro generate code that
performs proper zero and sign extension convert all 64 bit parameters
to their corresponding 32 bit compat counterparts.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Convert all compat system call functions where all parameter types
have a size of four or less than four bytes, or are pointer types
to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE.
The implicit casts within COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE will perform proper
zero and sign extension to 64 bit of all parameters if needed.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
In compat_sys_old_getrlimit() we pass a kernel pointer to
sys_old_getrlimit() inside a set_fs() bracket. This is okay, so we
can safely cast the affected pointer to __user.
In compat_clock_nanosleep_restart(), the variable "rmtp" holds a user
pointer. Annotate it as such.
Both of these warnings are ancient, but were reported by Fengguang
Wu's test system due to other changes.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Toyo Abe <toyoa@mvista.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-507h7cq5e45eg6ygtykon3bf@git.kernel.org
We have two APIs for compatiblity timespec/val, with confusingly
similar names. compat_(get|put)_time(val|spec) *do* handle the case
where COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME is set, whereas
(get|put)_compat_time(val|spec) do not. This is an accident waiting
to happen.
Clean it up by favoring the full-service version; the limited version
is replaced with double-underscore versions static to kernel/compat.c.
A common pattern is to convert a struct timespec to kernel format in
an allocation on the user stack. Unfortunately it is open-coded in
several places. Since this allocation isn't actually needed if
COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME is true (since user format == kernel format)
encapsulate that whole pattern into the function
compat_convert_timespec(). An equivalent function should be written
for struct timeval if it is needed in the future.
Finally, get rid of compat_(get|put)_timeval_convert(): each was only
used once, and the latter was not even doing what the function said
(no conversion actually was being done.) Moving the conversion into
compat_sys_settimeofday() itself makes the code much more similar to
sys_settimeofday() itself.
v3: Remove unused compat_convert_timeval().
v2: Drop bogus "const" in the destination argument for
compat_convert_time*().
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>
Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tested-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Pull compat cleanup from Al Viro:
"Mostly about syscall wrappers this time; there will be another pile
with patches in the same general area from various people, but I'd
rather push those after both that and vfs.git pile are in."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
syscalls.h: slightly reduce the jungles of macros
get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments
make do_mremap() static
sparc: no need to sign-extend in sync_file_range() wrapper
ppc compat wrappers for add_key(2) and request_key(2) are pointless
x86: trim sys_ia32.h
x86: sys32_kill and sys32_mprotect are pointless
get rid of compat_sys_semctl() and friends in case of ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
merge compat sys_ipc instances
consolidate compat lookup_dcookie()
convert vmsplice to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
switch getrusage() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
switch epoll_pwait to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
convert sendfile{,64} to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
switch signalfd{,4}() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
make SYSCALL_DEFINE<n>-generated wrappers do asmlinkage_protect
make HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS unconditional
consolidate cond_syscall and SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations
teach SYSCALL_DEFINE<n> how to deal with long long/unsigned long long
get rid of duplicate logics in __SC_....[1-6] definitions
The only use outside of kernel/timer.c was in kernel/compat.c, so move
compat_sys_sysinfo() next to sys_sysinfo() in kernel/timer.c.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
"This is the first pile; another one will come a bit later and will
contain SYSCALL_DEFINE-related patches.
- a bunch of signal-related syscalls (both native and compat)
unified.
- a bunch of compat syscalls switched to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
(fixing several potential problems with missing argument
validation, while we are at it)
- a lot of now-pointless wrappers killed
- a couple of architectures (cris and hexagon) forgot to save
altstack settings into sigframe, even though they used the
(uninitialized) values in sigreturn; fixed.
- microblaze fixes for delivery of multiple signals arriving at once
- saner set of helpers for signal delivery introduced, several
architectures switched to using those."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (143 commits)
x86: convert to ksignal
sparc: convert to ksignal
arm: switch to struct ksignal * passing
alpha: pass k_sigaction and siginfo_t using ksignal pointer
burying unused conditionals
make do_sigaltstack() static
arm64: switch to generic old sigaction() (compat-only)
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigaction()
arm64: switch compat to generic old sigsuspend
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigqueueinfo()
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigpending()
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigprocmask()
arm64: switch to generic sigaltstack
sparc: switch to generic old sigsuspend
sparc: COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE does all sign-extension as well as SYSCALL_DEFINE
sparc: kill sign-extending wrappers for native syscalls
kill sparc32_open()
sparc: switch to use of generic old sigaction
sparc: switch sys_compat_rt_sigaction() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
mips: switch to generic sys_fork() and sys_clone()
...
The copy_to_user() call returns the number of bytes remaining but we
want to return -EFAULT on error.
Fixes "x32: fix waitid()"
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
... and make it unconditional - we want the sucker on all biarch
platforms, really. All kinds of wrappers and private implementations
can go now; fortunately, they don't cause name conflicts, so we can
do that one first without any bisect hazards.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
conditional on GENERIC_COMPAT_RT_SIGPROCMASK; by the end of that series
it will become the same thing as COMPAT and conditional will die out.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* pull compat version alongside with the native one
* make little-endian compat variant just call the native
* don't bother with separate conditional for compat (both native and
compat are going to become unconditional very soon).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
again, strictly speaking we are in nasal daemon territory on ppc
and mips - we need to sign-extend int arguments.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
It needs 64bit timespec. As it is, we end up truncating the timeout
to whole seconds; usually it doesn't matter, but for having all
sub-second timeouts truncated to one jiffy is visibly wrong.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
It needs 64bit rusage and 32bit siginfo. glibc never calls it with
non-NULL rusage pointer, or we would've seen breakage already...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>