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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2020-10-06 05:40:16 +0200
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2020-10-06 11:18:04 +0200
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parentx86/mce: Drop AMD-specific "DEFERRED" case from Intel severity rule list (diff)
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x86, powerpc: Rename memcpy_mcsafe() to copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}()
In reaction to a proposal to introduce a memcpy_mcsafe_fast() implementation Linus points out that memcpy_mcsafe() is poorly named relative to communicating the scope of the interface. Specifically what addresses are valid to pass as source, destination, and what faults / exceptions are handled. Of particular concern is that even though x86 might be able to handle the semantics of copy_mc_to_user() with its common copy_user_generic() implementation other archs likely need / want an explicit path for this case: On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:28 AM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 6:21 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote: > > > > However now I see that copy_user_generic() works for the wrong reason. > > It works because the exception on the source address due to poison > > looks no different than a write fault on the user address to the > > caller, it's still just a short copy. So it makes copy_to_user() work > > for the wrong reason relative to the name. > > Right. > > And it won't work that way on other architectures. On x86, we have a > generic function that can take faults on either side, and we use it > for both cases (and for the "in_user" case too), but that's an > artifact of the architecture oddity. > > In fact, it's probably wrong even on x86 - because it can hide bugs - > but writing those things is painful enough that everybody prefers > having just one function. Replace a single top-level memcpy_mcsafe() with either copy_mc_to_user(), or copy_mc_to_kernel(). Introduce an x86 copy_mc_fragile() name as the rename for the low-level x86 implementation formerly named memcpy_mcsafe(). It is used as the slow / careful backend that is supplanted by a fast copy_mc_generic() in a follow-on patch. One side-effect of this reorganization is that separating copy_mc_64.S to its own file means that perf no longer needs to track dependencies for its memcpy_64.S benchmarks. [ bp: Massage a bit. ] Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjSqtXAqfUJxFtWNwmguFASTgB0dz1dT3V-78Quiezqbg@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160195561680.2163339.11574962055305783722.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h20
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
index bc10e3dc64fe..e7265a552f4f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
@@ -47,22 +47,6 @@ copy_user_generic(void *to, const void *from, unsigned len)
}
static __always_inline __must_check unsigned long
-copy_to_user_mcsafe(void *to, const void *from, unsigned len)
-{
- unsigned long ret;
-
- __uaccess_begin();
- /*
- * Note, __memcpy_mcsafe() is explicitly used since it can
- * handle exceptions / faults. memcpy_mcsafe() may fall back to
- * memcpy() which lacks this handling.
- */
- ret = __memcpy_mcsafe(to, from, len);
- __uaccess_end();
- return ret;
-}
-
-static __always_inline __must_check unsigned long
raw_copy_from_user(void *dst, const void __user *src, unsigned long size)
{
return copy_user_generic(dst, (__force void *)src, size);
@@ -102,8 +86,4 @@ __copy_from_user_flushcache(void *dst, const void __user *src, unsigned size)
kasan_check_write(dst, size);
return __copy_user_flushcache(dst, src, size);
}
-
-unsigned long
-mcsafe_handle_tail(char *to, char *from, unsigned len);
-
#endif /* _ASM_X86_UACCESS_64_H */