If raw_copy_from_user(to, from, N) returns K, callers expect
the first N - K bytes starting at to to have been replaced with
the contents of corresponding area starting at from and the last
K bytes of destination *left* *unmodified*.
What arch/sky/lib/usercopy.c is doing is broken - it can lead to e.g.
data corruption on write(2).
raw_copy_to_user() is inaccurate about return value, which is a bug,
but consequences are less drastic than for raw_copy_from_user().
And just what are those access_ok() doing in there? I mean, look into
linux/uaccess.h; that's where we do that check (as well as zero tail
on failure in the callers that need zeroing).
AFAICS, all of that shouldn't be hard to fix; something like a patch
below might make a useful starting point.
I would suggest moving these macros into usercopy.c (they are never
used anywhere else) and possibly expanding them there; if you leave
them alive, please at least rename __copy_user_zeroing(). Again,
it must not zero anything on failed read.
Said that, I'm not sure we won't be better off simply turning
usercopy.c into usercopy.S - all that is left there is a couple of
functions, each consisting only of inline asm.
Guo Ren reply:
Yes, raw_copy_from_user is wrong, it's no need zeroing code.
unsigned long _copy_from_user(void *to, const void __user *from,
unsigned long n)
{
unsigned long res = n;
might_fault();
if (likely(access_ok(from, n))) {
kasan_check_write(to, n);
res = raw_copy_from_user(to, from, n);
}
if (unlikely(res))
memset(to + (n - res), 0, res);
return res;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(_copy_from_user);
You are right and access_ok() should be removed.
but, how about:
do {
...
"2: stw %3, (%1, 0) \n" \
+ " subi %0, 4 \n" \
"9: stw %4, (%1, 4) \n" \
+ " subi %0, 4 \n" \
"10: stw %5, (%1, 8) \n" \
+ " subi %0, 4 \n" \
"11: stw %6, (%1, 12) \n" \
+ " subi %0, 4 \n" \
" addi %2, 16 \n" \
" addi %1, 16 \n" \
Don't expand __ex_table
AI Viro reply:
Hey, I've no idea about the instruction scheduling on csky -
if that doesn't slow the things down, all the better. It's just
that copy_to_user() and friends are on fairly hot codepaths,
and in quite a few situations they will dominate the speed of
e.g. read(2). So I tried to keep the fast path unchanged.
Up to the architecture maintainers, obviously. Which would be
you...
As for the fixups size increase (__ex_table size is unchanged)...
You have each of those macros expanded exactly once.
So the size is not a serious argument, IMO - useless complexity
would be, if it is, in fact, useless; the size... not really,
especially since those extra subi will at least offset it.
Again, up to you - asm optimizations of (essentially)
memcpy()-style loops are tricky and can depend upon the
fairly subtle details of architecture. So even on something
I know reasonably well I would resort to direct experiments
if I can't pass the buck to architecture maintainers.
It *is* worth optimizing - this is where read() from a file
that is already in page cache spends most of the time, etc.
Guo Ren reply:
Thx, after fixup some typo “sub %0, 4”, apply the patch.
TODO:
- user copy/from codes are still need optimizing.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>
Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.
It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access. But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.
A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model. And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.
This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.
There were a couple of notable cases:
- csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.
- the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
really used it)
- microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout
but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.
I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something. Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Al Viro