Thread (22 messages) flat view 22 messages, 4 authors, 2021-05-27

Re: [PATCH 8/8] arm64: Rewrite __arch_clear_user()

From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Date: 2021-05-12 10:51:22

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 05:12:38PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
Now that we're always using STTR variants rather than abstracting two
different addressing modes, the user_ldst macro here is frankly more
obfuscating than helpful.
FWIW, I completely agree; the user_ldst macros are a historical artifact
and I'm happy to see them go!
Rewrite __arch_clear_user() with regular
USER() annotations so that it's clearer what's going on, and take the
opportunity to minimise the branchiness in the most common paths, which
also allows the exception fixup to return a more accurate result.
IIUC this isn't always accurate for the {4,2,1}-byte cases; example
below. I'm not sure whether that's intentional since the commit message
says "more accurate" rather than "accurate".
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/lib/clear_user.S | 42 +++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/clear_user.S b/arch/arm64/lib/clear_user.S
index af9afcbec92c..1005345b4066 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/lib/clear_user.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/lib/clear_user.S
@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
 /*
- * Based on arch/arm/lib/clear_user.S
- *
- * Copyright (C) 2012 ARM Ltd.
+ * Copyright (C) 2021 Arm Ltd.
  */
-#include <linux/linkage.h>
 
-#include <asm/asm-uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/linkage.h>
 #include <asm/assembler.h>
 
 	.text
@@ -19,25 +16,30 @@
  *
  * Alignment fixed up by hardware.
  */
+	.p2align 4
 SYM_FUNC_START(__arch_clear_user)
Say we're called with size in x1 == 0x7
-	mov	x2, x1			// save the size for fixup return
+	add	x2, x0, x1
 	subs	x1, x1, #8
 	b.mi	2f
... here we'll skip to the 4-byte case at 2f ...
 1:
-user_ldst 9f, sttr, xzr, x0, 8
+USER(9f, sttr	xzr, [x0])
+	add	x0, x0, #8
 	subs	x1, x1, #8
-	b.pl	1b
-2:	adds	x1, x1, #4
-	b.mi	3f
-user_ldst 9f, sttr, wzr, x0, 4
-	sub	x1, x1, #4
-3:	adds	x1, x1, #2
-	b.mi	4f
-user_ldst 9f, sttrh, wzr, x0, 2
-	sub	x1, x1, #2
-4:	adds	x1, x1, #1
-	b.mi	5f
-user_ldst 9f, sttrb, wzr, x0, 0
+	b.hi	1b
+USER(9f, sttr	xzr, [x2, #-8])
+	mov	x0, #0
+	ret
+
+2:	tbz	x1, #2, 3f
... bit 2 is non-zero, so we continue ...
+USER(9f, sttr	wzr, [x0])
... and if this faults, the fixup will report the correct address ...
+USER(9f, sttr	wzr, [x2, #-4])
... but if this faults, teh fixup handler will report that we didn't
copy all 7 bytes, rather than just the last 3, since we didn't update x0
after the first 4-byte STTR.

We could update x0 inline, or add separate fixup handlers to account for
that out-of-line.

If we think that under-estimating is fine, I reckon it'd be worth a
comment to make that clear.

Thanks,
Mark.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+	mov	x0, #0
+	ret
+
+3:	tbz	x1, #1, 4f
+USER(9f, sttrh	wzr, [x0])
+4:	tbz	x1, #0, 5f
+USER(9f, sttrb	wzr, [x2, #-1])
 5:	mov	x0, #0
 	ret
 SYM_FUNC_END(__arch_clear_user)
@@ -45,6 +47,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__arch_clear_user)
 
 	.section .fixup,"ax"
 	.align	2
-9:	mov	x0, x2			// return the original size
+9:	sub	x0, x2, x0
 	ret
 	.previous
-- 
2.21.0.dirty


_______________________________________________
linux-arm-kernel mailing list
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
_______________________________________________
linux-arm-kernel mailing list
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help