Re: [PATCH 8/9] RISC-V: User-facing API

[Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:49:44 PDT (-0700), tglx@linutronix.de wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2017, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>> +
>> +SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sysriscv_cmpxchg32, unsigned long, arg1, unsigned long, arg2,
>> +		unsigned long, arg3)
>> +{
>> +	unsigned long flags;
>> +	unsigned long prev;
>> +	unsigned int *ptr;
>> +	unsigned int err;
>> +
>> +	ptr = (unsigned int *)arg1;
>
> Errm. Why isn't arg1 a proper pointer type and the arguments arg2/3 u32?
>
> And please give the arguments a proper name, so it's obvious what is what.
>
> SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sysriscv_cmpxchg32, u32 __user *, ptr, u32 new, u32 old)
>
> Hmm?

Sorry about that -- this used to be a multiplexed system call, and I guess I
was just being stupid when demultiplexing it.  That's much better, I've
converted these over.

>> +	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, ptr, sizeof(unsigned int)))
>> +		return -EFAULT;
>> +
>> +	preempt_disable();
>> +	raw_local_irq_save(flags);
>
> Why do you want to disable interrupts here? This is thread context and
> accessing user space memory, so the only protection this needs is against
> preemption.

OK, that makes sense.

>> +	err = __get_user(prev, ptr);
>> +	if (likely(!err && prev == arg2))
>> +		err = __put_user(arg3, ptr);
>> +	raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
>> +	preempt_enable();
>> +
>> +	return unlikely(err) ? err : prev;
>> +}
>> +
>> +SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sysriscv_cmpxchg64, unsigned long, arg1, unsigned long, arg2,
>> +		unsigned long, arg3)
>
> This one is even worse. How does this implement cmpxchg64 on a 32bit machine?
>
> Answer: Not at all, because arg2 and 3 are 32bit ....

Thanks for catching that -- this was just a bit of copy-and-paste gone wrong.

>> +{
>> +	unsigned long flags;
>> +	unsigned long prev;
>> +	unsigned int *ptr;
>> +	unsigned int err;
>> +
>> +	ptr = (unsigned int *)arg1;
>
> Type casting to random pointer types makes the code more obvious
> and safe, right? What the heck has a int pointer to do with u64?
>
>> +	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, ptr, sizeof(unsigned long)))
>> +		return -EFAULT;
>> +
>> +	preempt_disable();
>> +	raw_local_irq_save(flags);
>
> Same as above.
>
>> +	err = __get_user(prev, ptr);
>
> Sigh. Type safety is overrated, right?

Again, this was due to the multiplexing that has been removed.  I've gone ahead
and cleaned up this system call here

  https://github.com/riscv/riscv-linux/commit/1af46852b968db5af044ec3a0329a73116b3e6ec

We'll include this in our v4 patch set.

Thanks!