From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Convert filldir[64]() from __put_user() to unsafe_put_user()
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 21:18:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191015201845.GP26530@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191015194012.GO26530@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 08:40:12PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> or this
> static void ntb_memcpy_tx(struct ntb_queue_entry *entry, void __iomem *offset)
> {
> #ifdef ARCH_HAS_NOCACHE_UACCESS
> /*
> * Using non-temporal mov to improve performance on non-cached
> * writes, even though we aren't actually copying from user space.
> */
> __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache(offset, entry->buf, entry->len);
> #else
> memcpy_toio(offset, entry->buf, entry->len);
> #endif
>
> /* Ensure that the data is fully copied out before setting the flags */
> wmb();
>
> ntb_tx_copy_callback(entry, NULL);
> }
> "user" part is bollocks in both cases; moreover, I really wonder about that
> ifdef in ntb one - ARCH_HAS_NOCACHE_UACCESS is x86-only *at* *the* *moment*
> and it just so happens that ..._toio() doesn't require anything special on
> x86. Have e.g. arm grow nocache stuff and the things will suddenly break,
> won't they?
Incidentally, there are two callers of __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache() in
generic code:
lib/iov_iter.c:792: __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache((to += v.iov_len) - v.iov_len,
lib/iov_iter.c:849: if (__copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache((to += v.iov_len) - v.iov_len,
Neither is done under under pagefault_disable(), AFAICS. This one
drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_ioctl.c:189: unwritten = __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache
probably is - it has something called qxl_bo_kmap_atomic_page() called just prior,
which would seem to imply kmap_atomic() somewhere in it.
The same goes for
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c:500: unwritten = __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache((void __force *)vaddr + offset,
So we have 5 callers anywhere. Two are not "inatomic" in any sense; source is
in userspace and we want nocache behaviour. Two _are_ done into a page that
had been fed through kmap_atomic(); the source is, again, in userland. And
the last one is complete BS - it wants memcpy_toio_nocache() and abuses this
thing.
Incidentally, in case of fault i915 caller ends up unmapping the page,
mapping it non-atomic (with kmap?) and doing plain copy_from_user(),
nocache be damned. qxl, OTOH, whines and fails all the way to userland...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-15 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-06 22:20 [PATCH] Convert filldir[64]() from __put_user() to unsafe_put_user() Guenter Roeck
2019-10-06 23:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-06 23:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-07 0:04 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-10-07 1:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-07 1:24 ` Al Viro
2019-10-07 2:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-07 2:50 ` Al Viro
2019-10-07 3:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-07 15:40 ` David Laight
2019-10-07 18:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-08 9:58 ` David Laight
2019-10-07 17:34 ` Al Viro
2019-10-07 18:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-07 18:22 ` Al Viro
2019-10-07 18:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-07 18:36 ` Tony Luck
2019-10-07 19:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-07 19:49 ` Tony Luck
2019-10-07 20:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-08 3:29 ` Al Viro
2019-10-08 4:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-08 4:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-08 5:02 ` Al Viro
2019-10-08 4:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-10 19:55 ` Al Viro
2019-10-10 22:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-11 0:11 ` Al Viro
2019-10-11 0:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-13 18:13 ` Al Viro
2019-10-13 18:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-13 19:10 ` Al Viro
2019-10-13 19:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-13 19:59 ` Al Viro
2019-10-13 20:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-15 3:46 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-10-15 18:08 ` Al Viro
2019-10-15 19:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-15 19:40 ` Al Viro
2019-10-15 20:18 ` Al Viro [this message]
2019-10-16 12:12 ` [RFC] change of calling conventions for arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser() Al Viro
2019-10-16 12:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-10-16 20:25 ` [PATCH] Convert filldir[64]() from __put_user() to unsafe_put_user() Al Viro
2019-10-18 0:27 ` [RFC] csum_and_copy_from_user() semantics Al Viro
2019-10-25 14:01 ` [PATCH] Convert filldir[64]() from __put_user() to unsafe_put_user() Thomas Gleixner
2019-10-08 4:57 ` Al Viro
2019-10-08 13:14 ` Greg KH
2019-10-08 15:29 ` Al Viro
2019-10-08 15:38 ` Greg KH
2019-10-08 17:06 ` Al Viro
2019-10-08 19:58 ` Al Viro
2019-10-08 20:16 ` Al Viro
2019-10-08 20:34 ` Al Viro
2019-10-07 2:30 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-10-07 3:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-07 0:23 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-10-07 4:04 ` Max Filippov
2019-10-07 12:16 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-10-07 19:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-07 20:29 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-10-07 23:27 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-10-08 6:28 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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