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Andi Kleen
e0a96129db x86: use early clobbers in usercopy*.c
Impact: fix rare (but currently harmless) miscompile with certain configs and gcc versions

Hugh Dickins noticed that strncpy_from_user() was miscompiled
in some circumstances with gcc 4.3.

Thanks to Hugh's excellent analysis it was easy to track down.

Hugh writes:

> Try building an x86_64 defconfig 2.6.29-rc1 kernel tree,
> except not quite defconfig, switch CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y
> and CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY off (because it expands a
> might_fault() there, which hides the issue): using a
> gcc 4.3.2 (I've checked both openSUSE 11.1 and Fedora 10).
>
> It generates the following:
>
> 0000000000000000 <__strncpy_from_user>:
>    0:   48 89 d1                mov    %rdx,%rcx
>    3:   48 85 c9                test   %rcx,%rcx
>    6:   74 0e                   je     16 <__strncpy_from_user+0x16>
>    8:   ac                      lods   %ds:(%rsi),%al
>    9:   aa                      stos   %al,%es:(%rdi)
>    a:   84 c0                   test   %al,%al
>    c:   74 05                   je     13 <__strncpy_from_user+0x13>
>    e:   48 ff c9                dec    %rcx
>   11:   75 f5                   jne    8 <__strncpy_from_user+0x8>
>   13:   48 29 c9                sub    %rcx,%rcx
>   16:   48 89 c8                mov    %rcx,%rax
>   19:   c3                      retq
>
> Observe that "sub %rcx,%rcx; mov %rcx,%rax", whereas gcc 4.2.1
> (and many other configs) say "sub %rcx,%rdx; mov %rdx,%rax".
> Isn't it returning 0 when it ought to be returning strlen?

The asm constraints for the strncpy_from_user() result were missing an
early clobber, which tells gcc that the last output arguments
are written before all input arguments are read.

Also add more early clobbers in the rest of the file and fix 32-bit
usercopy.c in the same way.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
[ since this API is rarely used and no in-kernel user relies on a 'len'
  return value (they only rely on negative return values) this miscompile
  was never noticed in the field. But it's worth fixing it nevertheless. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-21 09:43:17 +01:00
Nick Piggin
3ee1afa308 x86: some lock annotations for user copy paths, v2
- introduce might_fault()
 - handle the atomic user copy paths correctly

[ mingo@elte.hu: move might_sleep() outside of in_atomic(). ]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-11 09:44:21 +02:00
Nick Piggin
c10d38dda1 x86: some lock annotations for user copy paths
copy_to/from_user and all its variants (except the atomic ones) can take a
page fault and perform non-trivial work like taking mmap_sem and entering
the filesyste/pagecache.

Unfortunately, this often escapes lockdep because a common pattern is to
use it to read in some arguments just set up from userspace, or write data
back to a hot buffer. In those cases, it will be unlikely for page reclaim
to get a window in to cause copy_*_user to fault.

With the new might_lock primitives, add some annotations to x86. I don't
know if I caught all possible faulting points (it's a bit of a maze, and I
didn't really look at 32-bit). But this is a starting point.

Boots and runs OK so far.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-10 13:48:49 +02:00
Vitaly Mayatskikh
1129585a08 x86: introduce copy_user_handle_tail() routine
Introduce generic C routine for handling necessary tail operations after
protection fault in copy_*_user on x86.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-09 15:51:03 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
8da804f2b2 x86: use _ASM_EXTABLE macro in arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c
Use the _ASM_EXTABLE macro from <asm/asm.h>, instead of open-coding
__ex_table entires in arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-04 16:47:57 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
185f3d3890 x86_64: move lib
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-11 11:17:08 +02:00
Renamed from arch/x86_64/lib/usercopy_64.c (Browse further)