[merged] lib-lz4-explicitly-support-in-place-decompression.patch removed from -mm tree

[akpm@linux-foundation.org]

The patch titled
     Subject: lib/lz4: explicitly support in-place decompression
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     lib-lz4-explicitly-support-in-place-decompression.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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From: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com>
Subject: lib/lz4: explicitly support in-place decompression

LZ4 final literal copy could be overlapped when doing
in-place decompression, so it's unsafe to just use memcpy()
on an optimized memcpy approach but memmove() instead.

Upstream LZ4 has updated this years ago [1] (and the impact
is non-sensible [2] plus only a few bytes remain), this commit
just synchronizes LZ4 upstream code to the kernel side as well.

It can be observed as EROFS in-place decompression failure
on specific files when X86_FEATURE_ERMS is unsupported,
memcpy() optimization of commit 59daa706fbec ("x86, mem:
Optimize memcpy by avoiding memory false dependece") will
be enabled then.

Currently most modern x86-CPUs support ERMS, these CPUs just
use "rep movsb" approach so no problem at all. However, it can
still be verified with forcely disabling ERMS feature...

arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:
        ALTERNATIVE_2 "jmp memcpy_orig", "", X86_FEATURE_REP_GOOD, \
-                     "jmp memcpy_erms", X86_FEATURE_ERMS
+                     "jmp memcpy_orig", X86_FEATURE_ERMS

We didn't observe any strange on arm64/arm/x86 platform before
since most memcpy() would behave in an increasing address order
("copy upwards" [3]) and it's the correct order of in-place
decompression but it really needs an update to memmove() for sure
considering it's an undefined behavior according to the standard
and some unique optimization already exists in the kernel.

[1] https://github.com/lz4/lz4/commit/33cb8518ac385835cc17be9a770b27b40cd0e15b
[2] https://github.com/lz4/lz4/pull/717#issuecomment-497818921
[3] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12518
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201122030749.2698994-1-hsiangkao@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Cc: Yann Collet <yann.collet.73@gmail.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaoxie@huawei.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Cc: Li Guifu <bluce.liguifu@huawei.com>
Cc: Guo Xuenan <guoxuenan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c |    6 +++++-
 lib/lz4/lz4defs.h        |    1 +
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c~lib-lz4-explicitly-support-in-place-decompression
+++ a/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c
@@ -263,7 +263,11 @@ static FORCE_INLINE int LZ4_decompress_g
 				}
 			}
 
-			LZ4_memcpy(op, ip, length);
+			/*
+			 * supports overlapping memory regions; only matters
+			 * for in-place decompression scenarios
+			 */
+			LZ4_memmove(op, ip, length);
 			ip += length;
 			op += length;
 
--- a/lib/lz4/lz4defs.h~lib-lz4-explicitly-support-in-place-decompression
+++ a/lib/lz4/lz4defs.h
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ static FORCE_INLINE void LZ4_writeLE16(v
  * environments. This is needed when decompressing the Linux Kernel, for example.
  */
 #define LZ4_memcpy(dst, src, size) __builtin_memcpy(dst, src, size)
+#define LZ4_memmove(dst, src, size) __builtin_memmove(dst, src, size)
 
 static FORCE_INLINE void LZ4_copy8(void *dst, const void *src)
 {
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from hsiangkao@redhat.com are