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    ARM: spectre-v1: use get_user() for __get_user() · b1cd0a14
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    Fixing __get_user() for spectre variant 1 is not sane: we would have to
    add address space bounds checking in order to validate that the location
    should be accessed, and then zero the address if found to be invalid.
    
    Since __get_user() is supposed to avoid the bounds check, and this is
    exactly what get_user() does, there's no point having two different
    implementations that are doing the same thing.  So, when the Spectre
    workarounds are required, make __get_user() an alias of get_user().
    
    Acked-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
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