[PATCH 12/12] x86_64: __clear_user as case of __memset_user
From: Igor Stoppa <hidden>
Date: 2018-12-21 18:15:27
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the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers:
Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen
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- 2018-12-19 · [PATCH 12/12] x86_64: __clear_user as case of __memset_user · Igor Stoppa <hidden>
To avoid code duplication, re-use __memset_user(), when clearing user-space memory. The overhead should be minimal (2 extra register assignments) and outside of the writing loop. Signed-off-by: Igor Stoppa <redacted> CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> CC: Nadav Amit <redacted> CC: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> CC: Kees Cook <redacted> CC: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> CC: Mimi Zohar <redacted> CC: Thiago Jung Bauermann <redacted> CC: Ahmed Soliman <redacted> CC: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org CC: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com CC: linux-mm@kvack.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c | 29 +---------------------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 28 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c
index 84f8f8a20b30..ab6aabb62055 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c@@ -69,34 +69,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(memset_user); unsigned long __clear_user(void __user *addr, unsigned long size) { - long __d0; - might_fault(); - /* no memory constraint because it doesn't change any memory gcc knows - about */ - stac(); - asm volatile( - " testq %[size8],%[size8]\n" - " jz 4f\n" - "0: movq $0,(%[dst])\n" - " addq $8,%[dst]\n" - " decl %%ecx ; jnz 0b\n" - "4: movq %[size1],%%rcx\n" - " testl %%ecx,%%ecx\n" - " jz 2f\n" - "1: movb $0,(%[dst])\n" - " incq %[dst]\n" - " decl %%ecx ; jnz 1b\n" - "2:\n" - ".section .fixup,\"ax\"\n" - "3: lea 0(%[size1],%[size8],8),%[size8]\n" - " jmp 2b\n" - ".previous\n" - _ASM_EXTABLE_UA(0b, 3b) - _ASM_EXTABLE_UA(1b, 2b) - : [size8] "=&c"(size), [dst] "=&D" (__d0) - : [size1] "r"(size & 7), "[size8]" (size / 8), "[dst]"(addr)); - clac(); - return size; + return __memset_user(addr, 0, size); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__clear_user);
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