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[PATCH ARM32 v4.4 V2 31/47] ARM: 8793/1: signal: replace __put_user_error with __put_user

From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Date: 2019-08-01 08:20:57
Also in: stable
Subsystem: arm port, the rest · Maintainers: Russell King, Linus Torvalds

From: Julien Thierry <redacted>

Commit 18ea66bd6e7a95bdc598223d72757190916af28b upstream.

With Spectre-v1.1 mitigations, __put_user_error is pointless. In an attempt
to remove it, replace its references in frame setups with __put_user.

Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/signal.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
index 6f0bd90f6d93..4a4ab72d27ba 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ setup_sigframe(struct sigframe __user *sf, struct pt_regs *regs, sigset_t *set)
 	if (err == 0)
 		err |= preserve_vfp_context(&aux->vfp);
 #endif
-	__put_user_error(0, &aux->end_magic, err);
+	err |= __put_user(0, &aux->end_magic);
 
 	return err;
 }
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ setup_frame(struct ksignal *ksig, sigset_t *set, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	/*
 	 * Set uc.uc_flags to a value which sc.trap_no would never have.
 	 */
-	__put_user_error(0x5ac3c35a, &frame->uc.uc_flags, err);
+	err = __put_user(0x5ac3c35a, &frame->uc.uc_flags);
 
 	err |= setup_sigframe(frame, regs, set);
 	if (err == 0)
@@ -453,8 +453,8 @@ setup_rt_frame(struct ksignal *ksig, sigset_t *set, struct pt_regs *regs)
 
 	err |= copy_siginfo_to_user(&frame->info, &ksig->info);
 
-	__put_user_error(0, &frame->sig.uc.uc_flags, err);
-	__put_user_error(NULL, &frame->sig.uc.uc_link, err);
+	err |= __put_user(0, &frame->sig.uc.uc_flags);
+	err |= __put_user(NULL, &frame->sig.uc.uc_link);
 
 	err |= __save_altstack(&frame->sig.uc.uc_stack, regs->ARM_sp);
 	err |= setup_sigframe(&frame->sig, regs, set);
-- 
2.21.0.rc0.269.g1a574e7a288b


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