[merged] kexec-avoid-compat_alloc_user_space.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged] kexec-avoid-compat_alloc_user_space.patch removed from -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: kexec: avoid compat_alloc_user_space
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     kexec-avoid-compat_alloc_user_space.patch

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

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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: kexec: avoid compat_alloc_user_space

kimage_alloc_init() expects a __user pointer, so compat_sys_kexec_load()
uses compat_alloc_user_space() to convert the layout and put it back onto
the user space caller stack.

Moving the user space access into the syscall handler directly actually
makes the code simpler, as the conversion for compat mode can now be done
on kernel memory.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210727144859.4150043-3-arnd@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YPbtsU4GX6PL7%2F42@infradead.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/m1y2cbzmnw.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Co-developed-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Co-developed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 kernel/kexec.c |   61 +++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/kexec.c~kexec-avoid-compat_alloc_user_space
+++ a/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -19,26 +19,9 @@
 
 #include "kexec_internal.h"
 
-static int copy_user_segment_list(struct kimage *image,
-				  unsigned long nr_segments,
-				  struct kexec_segment __user *segments)
-{
-	int ret;
-	size_t segment_bytes;
-
-	/* Read in the segments */
-	image->nr_segments = nr_segments;
-	segment_bytes = nr_segments * sizeof(*segments);
-	ret = copy_from_user(image->segment, segments, segment_bytes);
-	if (ret)
-		ret = -EFAULT;
-
-	return ret;
-}
-
 static int kimage_alloc_init(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry,
 			     unsigned long nr_segments,
-			     struct kexec_segment __user *segments,
+			     struct kexec_segment *segments,
 			     unsigned long flags)
 {
 	int ret;
@@ -58,10 +41,8 @@ static int kimage_alloc_init(struct kima
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	image->start = entry;
-
-	ret = copy_user_segment_list(image, nr_segments, segments);
-	if (ret)
-		goto out_free_image;
+	image->nr_segments = nr_segments;
+	memcpy(image->segment, segments, nr_segments * sizeof(*segments));
 
 	if (kexec_on_panic) {
 		/* Enable special crash kernel control page alloc policy. */
@@ -104,7 +85,7 @@ out_free_image:
 }
 
 static int do_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments,
-		struct kexec_segment __user *segments, unsigned long flags)
+		struct kexec_segment *segments, unsigned long flags)
 {
 	struct kimage **dest_image, *image;
 	unsigned long i;
@@ -250,7 +231,8 @@ static inline int kexec_load_check(unsig
 SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, unsigned long, entry, unsigned long, nr_segments,
 		struct kexec_segment __user *, segments, unsigned long, flags)
 {
-	int result;
+	struct kexec_segment *ksegments;
+	unsigned long result;
 
 	result = kexec_load_check(nr_segments, flags);
 	if (result)
@@ -261,7 +243,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, unsigned lon
 		((flags & KEXEC_ARCH_MASK) != KEXEC_ARCH_DEFAULT))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	result = do_kexec_load(entry, nr_segments, segments, flags);
+	ksegments = memdup_user(segments, nr_segments * sizeof(ksegments[0]));
+	if (IS_ERR(ksegments))
+		return PTR_ERR(ksegments);
+
+	result = do_kexec_load(entry, nr_segments, ksegments, flags);
+	kfree(ksegments);
 
 	return result;
 }
@@ -273,7 +260,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, compa
 		       compat_ulong_t, flags)
 {
 	struct compat_kexec_segment in;
-	struct kexec_segment out, __user *ksegments;
+	struct kexec_segment *ksegments;
 	unsigned long i, result;
 
 	result = kexec_load_check(nr_segments, flags);
@@ -286,24 +273,26 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, compa
 	if ((flags & KEXEC_ARCH_MASK) == KEXEC_ARCH_DEFAULT)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	ksegments = compat_alloc_user_space(nr_segments * sizeof(out));
+	ksegments = kmalloc_array(nr_segments, sizeof(ksegments[0]),
+			GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!ksegments)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_segments; i++) {
 		result = copy_from_user(&in, &segments[i], sizeof(in));
 		if (result)
-			return -EFAULT;
+			goto fail;
 
-		out.buf   = compat_ptr(in.buf);
-		out.bufsz = in.bufsz;
-		out.mem   = in.mem;
-		out.memsz = in.memsz;
-
-		result = copy_to_user(&ksegments[i], &out, sizeof(out));
-		if (result)
-			return -EFAULT;
+		ksegments[i].buf   = compat_ptr(in.buf);
+		ksegments[i].bufsz = in.bufsz;
+		ksegments[i].mem   = in.mem;
+		ksegments[i].memsz = in.memsz;
 	}
 
 	result = do_kexec_load(entry, nr_segments, ksegments, flags);
 
+fail:
+	kfree(ksegments);
 	return result;
 }
 #endif
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from arnd@arndb.de are