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<title>powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses</title>
<updated>2020-11-19T12:47:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2020-11-17T05:59:13+00:00</published>
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IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache
before it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It
is not possible for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible
memory using this method, since these systems implement a combination of
hardware and software security measures to prevent scenarios where
protected data could be leaked.

However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that
the attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass
"kernel user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony
Steinhauser of Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself,
but there is a possibility it could be used in conjunction with
side-channels or other weaknesses in the privileged code to construct an
attack.

This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege
boundaries of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache after user accesses.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache
before it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It
is not possible for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible
memory using this method, since these systems implement a combination of
hardware and software security measures to prevent scenarios where
protected data could be leaked.

However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that
the attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass
"kernel user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony
Steinhauser of Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself,
but there is a possibility it could be used in conjunction with
side-channels or other weaknesses in the privileged code to construct an
attack.

This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege
boundaries of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache after user accesses.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: flush L1D on kernel entry</title>
<updated>2020-11-19T12:47:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-17T05:59:12+00:00</published>
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IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache
before it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It
is not possible for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible
memory using this method, since these systems implement a combination of
hardware and software security measures to prevent scenarios where
protected data could be leaked.

However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that
the attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass
"kernel user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony
Steinhauser of Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself,
but there is a possibility it could be used in conjunction with
side-channels or other weaknesses in the privileged code to construct an
attack.

This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege
boundaries of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache on kernel entry.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache
before it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It
is not possible for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible
memory using this method, since these systems implement a combination of
hardware and software security measures to prevent scenarios where
protected data could be leaked.

However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that
the attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass
"kernel user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony
Steinhauser of Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself,
but there is a possibility it could be used in conjunction with
side-channels or other weaknesses in the privileged code to construct an
attack.

This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege
boundaries of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache on kernel entry.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.set_fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2020-10-22T16:59:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-22T16:59:21+00:00</published>
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Pull initial set_fs() removal from Al Viro:
 "Christoph's set_fs base series + fixups"

* 'work.set_fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs: Allow a NULL pos pointer to __kernel_read
  fs: Allow a NULL pos pointer to __kernel_write
  powerpc: remove address space overrides using set_fs()
  powerpc: use non-set_fs based maccess routines
  x86: remove address space overrides using set_fs()
  x86: make TASK_SIZE_MAX usable from assembly code
  x86: move PAGE_OFFSET, TASK_SIZE &amp; friends to page_{32,64}_types.h
  lkdtm: remove set_fs-based tests
  test_bitmap: remove user bitmap tests
  uaccess: add infrastructure for kernel builds with set_fs()
  fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops
  fs: don't allow kernel reads and writes without iter ops
  sysctl: Convert to iter interfaces
  proc: add a read_iter method to proc proc_ops
  proc: cleanup the compat vs no compat file ops
  proc: remove a level of indentation in proc_get_inode
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Pull initial set_fs() removal from Al Viro:
 "Christoph's set_fs base series + fixups"

* 'work.set_fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs: Allow a NULL pos pointer to __kernel_read
  fs: Allow a NULL pos pointer to __kernel_write
  powerpc: remove address space overrides using set_fs()
  powerpc: use non-set_fs based maccess routines
  x86: remove address space overrides using set_fs()
  x86: make TASK_SIZE_MAX usable from assembly code
  x86: move PAGE_OFFSET, TASK_SIZE &amp; friends to page_{32,64}_types.h
  lkdtm: remove set_fs-based tests
  test_bitmap: remove user bitmap tests
  uaccess: add infrastructure for kernel builds with set_fs()
  fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops
  fs: don't allow kernel reads and writes without iter ops
  sysctl: Convert to iter interfaces
  proc: add a read_iter method to proc proc_ops
  proc: cleanup the compat vs no compat file ops
  proc: remove a level of indentation in proc_get_inode
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2020-10-16T19:21:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-16T19:21:15+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - A series from Nick adding ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM &amp; selecting
   it for powerpc, as well as a related fix for sparc.

 - Remove support for PowerPC 601.

 - Some fixes for watchpoints &amp; addition of a new ptrace flag for
   detecting ISA v3.1 (Power10) watchpoint features.

 - A fix for kernels using 4K pages and the hash MMU on bare metal
   Power9 systems with &gt; 16TB of RAM, or RAM on the 2nd node.

 - A basic idle driver for shallow stop states on Power10.

 - Tweaks to our sched domains code to better inform the scheduler about
   the hardware topology on Power9/10, where two SMT4 cores can be
   presented by firmware as an SMT8 core.

 - A series doing further reworks &amp; cleanups of our EEH code.

 - Addition of a filter for RTAS (firmware) calls done via sys_rtas(),
   to prevent root from overwriting kernel memory.

 - Other smaller features, fixes &amp; cleanups.

Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V,
Athira Rajeev, Biwen Li, Cameron Berkenpas, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe
Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Colin Ian King, Daniel Axtens, David Dai, Finn
Thain, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Greg Kurz, Gustavo Romero,
Ira Weiny, Jason Yan, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Konrad
Rzeszutek Wilk, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Liu Shixin, Luca
Ceresoli, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas
Mc Guire, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Pedro
Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang
Miao, Ravi Bangoria, Russell Currey, Satheesh Rajendran, Scott Cheloha,
Segher Boessenkool, Srikar Dronamraju, Stan Johnson, Stephen Kitt,
Stephen Rothwell, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain,
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, Vasant Hegde, Wang Wensheng, Wolfram Sang, Yang
Yingliang, zhengbin.

* tag 'powerpc-5.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (228 commits)
  Revert "powerpc/pci: unmap legacy INTx interrupts when a PHB is removed"
  selftests/powerpc: Fix eeh-basic.sh exit codes
  cpufreq: powernv: Fix frame-size-overflow in powernv_cpufreq_reboot_notifier
  powerpc/time: Make get_tb() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Make get_tbl() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Remove get_tbu()
  powerpc/time: Avoid using get_tbl() and get_tbu() internally
  powerpc/time: Make mftb() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Rename mftbl() to mftb()
  powerpc/32s: Remove #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_32 in head_book3s_32.S
  powerpc/32s: Rename head_32.S to head_book3s_32.S
  powerpc/32s: Setup the early hash table at all time.
  powerpc/time: Remove ifdef in get_dec() and set_dec()
  powerpc: Remove get_tb_or_rtc()
  powerpc: Remove __USE_RTC()
  powerpc: Tidy up a bit after removal of PowerPC 601.
  powerpc: Remove support for PowerPC 601
  powerpc: Remove PowerPC 601
  powerpc: Drop SYNC_601() ISYNC_601() and SYNC()
  powerpc: Remove CONFIG_PPC601_SYNC_FIX
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - A series from Nick adding ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM &amp; selecting
   it for powerpc, as well as a related fix for sparc.

 - Remove support for PowerPC 601.

 - Some fixes for watchpoints &amp; addition of a new ptrace flag for
   detecting ISA v3.1 (Power10) watchpoint features.

 - A fix for kernels using 4K pages and the hash MMU on bare metal
   Power9 systems with &gt; 16TB of RAM, or RAM on the 2nd node.

 - A basic idle driver for shallow stop states on Power10.

 - Tweaks to our sched domains code to better inform the scheduler about
   the hardware topology on Power9/10, where two SMT4 cores can be
   presented by firmware as an SMT8 core.

 - A series doing further reworks &amp; cleanups of our EEH code.

 - Addition of a filter for RTAS (firmware) calls done via sys_rtas(),
   to prevent root from overwriting kernel memory.

 - Other smaller features, fixes &amp; cleanups.

Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V,
Athira Rajeev, Biwen Li, Cameron Berkenpas, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe
Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Colin Ian King, Daniel Axtens, David Dai, Finn
Thain, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Greg Kurz, Gustavo Romero,
Ira Weiny, Jason Yan, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Konrad
Rzeszutek Wilk, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Liu Shixin, Luca
Ceresoli, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas
Mc Guire, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Pedro
Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang
Miao, Ravi Bangoria, Russell Currey, Satheesh Rajendran, Scott Cheloha,
Segher Boessenkool, Srikar Dronamraju, Stan Johnson, Stephen Kitt,
Stephen Rothwell, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain,
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, Vasant Hegde, Wang Wensheng, Wolfram Sang, Yang
Yingliang, zhengbin.

* tag 'powerpc-5.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (228 commits)
  Revert "powerpc/pci: unmap legacy INTx interrupts when a PHB is removed"
  selftests/powerpc: Fix eeh-basic.sh exit codes
  cpufreq: powernv: Fix frame-size-overflow in powernv_cpufreq_reboot_notifier
  powerpc/time: Make get_tb() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Make get_tbl() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Remove get_tbu()
  powerpc/time: Avoid using get_tbl() and get_tbu() internally
  powerpc/time: Make mftb() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Rename mftbl() to mftb()
  powerpc/32s: Remove #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_32 in head_book3s_32.S
  powerpc/32s: Rename head_32.S to head_book3s_32.S
  powerpc/32s: Setup the early hash table at all time.
  powerpc/time: Remove ifdef in get_dec() and set_dec()
  powerpc: Remove get_tb_or_rtc()
  powerpc: Remove __USE_RTC()
  powerpc: Tidy up a bit after removal of PowerPC 601.
  powerpc: Remove support for PowerPC 601
  powerpc: Remove PowerPC 601
  powerpc: Drop SYNC_601() ISYNC_601() and SYNC()
  powerpc: Remove CONFIG_PPC601_SYNC_FIX
  ...
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<entry>
<title>powerpc32: don't adjust unmoved stack pointer in csum_partial_copy_generic() epilogue</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T23:04:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-14T23:02:09+00:00</published>
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A recent change to the checksum code removed usage of some extra
arguments, alongside with storage on the stack for those, and the stack
pointer no longer needed to be adjusted in the function prologue.

But a left over subtraction wasn't removed in the function epilogue,
causing the function to return with the stack pointer moved 16 bytes
away from where it should have.  This corrupted local state and lead to
weird crashes.

This simply removes the leftover instruction from the epilogue.

Fixes: 70d65cd555c5 ("ppc: propagate the calling conventions change down to csum_partial_copy_generic()")
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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A recent change to the checksum code removed usage of some extra
arguments, alongside with storage on the stack for those, and the stack
pointer no longer needed to be adjusted in the function prologue.

But a left over subtraction wasn't removed in the function epilogue,
causing the function to return with the stack pointer moved 16 bytes
away from where it should have.  This corrupted local state and lead to
weird crashes.

This simply removes the leftover instruction from the epilogue.

Fixes: 70d65cd555c5 ("ppc: propagate the calling conventions change down to csum_partial_copy_generic()")
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.csum_and_copy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2020-10-12T23:24:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-12T23:24:13+00:00</published>
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Pull copy_and_csum cleanups from Al Viro:
 "Saner calling conventions for csum_and_copy_..._user() and friends"

[ Removing 800+ lines of code and cleaning stuff up is good  - Linus ]

* 'work.csum_and_copy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  ppc: propagate the calling conventions change down to csum_partial_copy_generic()
  amd64: switch csum_partial_copy_generic() to new calling conventions
  sparc64: propagate the calling convention changes down to __csum_partial_copy_...()
  xtensa: propagate the calling conventions change down into csum_partial_copy_generic()
  mips: propagate the calling convention change down into __csum_partial_copy_..._user()
  mips: __csum_partial_copy_kernel() has no users left
  mips: csum_and_copy_{to,from}_user() are never called under KERNEL_DS
  sparc32: propagate the calling conventions change down to __csum_partial_copy_sparc_generic()
  i386: propagate the calling conventions change down to csum_partial_copy_generic()
  sh: propage the calling conventions change down to csum_partial_copy_generic()
  m68k: get rid of zeroing destination on error in csum_and_copy_from_user()
  arm: propagate the calling convention changes down to csum_partial_copy_from_user()
  alpha: propagate the calling convention changes down to csum_partial_copy.c helpers
  saner calling conventions for csum_and_copy_..._user()
  csum_and_copy_..._user(): pass 0xffffffff instead of 0 as initial sum
  csum_partial_copy_nocheck(): drop the last argument
  unify generic instances of csum_partial_copy_nocheck()
  icmp_push_reply(): reorder adding the checksum up
  skb_copy_and_csum_bits(): don't bother with the last argument
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Pull copy_and_csum cleanups from Al Viro:
 "Saner calling conventions for csum_and_copy_..._user() and friends"

[ Removing 800+ lines of code and cleaning stuff up is good  - Linus ]

* 'work.csum_and_copy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  ppc: propagate the calling conventions change down to csum_partial_copy_generic()
  amd64: switch csum_partial_copy_generic() to new calling conventions
  sparc64: propagate the calling convention changes down to __csum_partial_copy_...()
  xtensa: propagate the calling conventions change down into csum_partial_copy_generic()
  mips: propagate the calling convention change down into __csum_partial_copy_..._user()
  mips: __csum_partial_copy_kernel() has no users left
  mips: csum_and_copy_{to,from}_user() are never called under KERNEL_DS
  sparc32: propagate the calling conventions change down to __csum_partial_copy_sparc_generic()
  i386: propagate the calling conventions change down to csum_partial_copy_generic()
  sh: propage the calling conventions change down to csum_partial_copy_generic()
  m68k: get rid of zeroing destination on error in csum_and_copy_from_user()
  arm: propagate the calling convention changes down to csum_partial_copy_from_user()
  alpha: propagate the calling convention changes down to csum_partial_copy.c helpers
  saner calling conventions for csum_and_copy_..._user()
  csum_and_copy_..._user(): pass 0xffffffff instead of 0 as initial sum
  csum_partial_copy_nocheck(): drop the last argument
  unify generic instances of csum_partial_copy_nocheck()
  icmp_push_reply(): reorder adding the checksum up
  skb_copy_and_csum_bits(): don't bother with the last argument
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<entry>
<title>x86, powerpc: Rename memcpy_mcsafe() to copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}()</title>
<updated>2020-10-06T09:18:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-06T03:40:16+00:00</published>
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In reaction to a proposal to introduce a memcpy_mcsafe_fast()
implementation Linus points out that memcpy_mcsafe() is poorly named
relative to communicating the scope of the interface. Specifically what
addresses are valid to pass as source, destination, and what faults /
exceptions are handled.

Of particular concern is that even though x86 might be able to handle
the semantics of copy_mc_to_user() with its common copy_user_generic()
implementation other archs likely need / want an explicit path for this
case:

  On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:28 AM Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt; wrote:
  &gt;
  &gt; On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 6:21 PM Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt; wrote:
  &gt; &gt;
  &gt; &gt; However now I see that copy_user_generic() works for the wrong reason.
  &gt; &gt; It works because the exception on the source address due to poison
  &gt; &gt; looks no different than a write fault on the user address to the
  &gt; &gt; caller, it's still just a short copy. So it makes copy_to_user() work
  &gt; &gt; for the wrong reason relative to the name.
  &gt;
  &gt; Right.
  &gt;
  &gt; And it won't work that way on other architectures. On x86, we have a
  &gt; generic function that can take faults on either side, and we use it
  &gt; for both cases (and for the "in_user" case too), but that's an
  &gt; artifact of the architecture oddity.
  &gt;
  &gt; In fact, it's probably wrong even on x86 - because it can hide bugs -
  &gt; but writing those things is painful enough that everybody prefers
  &gt; having just one function.

Replace a single top-level memcpy_mcsafe() with either
copy_mc_to_user(), or copy_mc_to_kernel().

Introduce an x86 copy_mc_fragile() name as the rename for the
low-level x86 implementation formerly named memcpy_mcsafe(). It is used
as the slow / careful backend that is supplanted by a fast
copy_mc_generic() in a follow-on patch.

One side-effect of this reorganization is that separating copy_mc_64.S
to its own file means that perf no longer needs to track dependencies
for its memcpy_64.S benchmarks.

 [ bp: Massage a bit. ]

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjSqtXAqfUJxFtWNwmguFASTgB0dz1dT3V-78Quiezqbg@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160195561680.2163339.11574962055305783722.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
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In reaction to a proposal to introduce a memcpy_mcsafe_fast()
implementation Linus points out that memcpy_mcsafe() is poorly named
relative to communicating the scope of the interface. Specifically what
addresses are valid to pass as source, destination, and what faults /
exceptions are handled.

Of particular concern is that even though x86 might be able to handle
the semantics of copy_mc_to_user() with its common copy_user_generic()
implementation other archs likely need / want an explicit path for this
case:

  On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:28 AM Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt; wrote:
  &gt;
  &gt; On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 6:21 PM Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt; wrote:
  &gt; &gt;
  &gt; &gt; However now I see that copy_user_generic() works for the wrong reason.
  &gt; &gt; It works because the exception on the source address due to poison
  &gt; &gt; looks no different than a write fault on the user address to the
  &gt; &gt; caller, it's still just a short copy. So it makes copy_to_user() work
  &gt; &gt; for the wrong reason relative to the name.
  &gt;
  &gt; Right.
  &gt;
  &gt; And it won't work that way on other architectures. On x86, we have a
  &gt; generic function that can take faults on either side, and we use it
  &gt; for both cases (and for the "in_user" case too), but that's an
  &gt; artifact of the architecture oddity.
  &gt;
  &gt; In fact, it's probably wrong even on x86 - because it can hide bugs -
  &gt; but writing those things is painful enough that everybody prefers
  &gt; having just one function.

Replace a single top-level memcpy_mcsafe() with either
copy_mc_to_user(), or copy_mc_to_kernel().

Introduce an x86 copy_mc_fragile() name as the rename for the
low-level x86 implementation formerly named memcpy_mcsafe(). It is used
as the slow / careful backend that is supplanted by a fast
copy_mc_generic() in a follow-on patch.

One side-effect of this reorganization is that separating copy_mc_64.S
to its own file means that perf no longer needs to track dependencies
for its memcpy_64.S benchmarks.

 [ bp: Massage a bit. ]

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjSqtXAqfUJxFtWNwmguFASTgB0dz1dT3V-78Quiezqbg@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160195561680.2163339.11574962055305783722.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
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<title>powerpc/sstep: Remove empty if statement checking for invalid form</title>
<updated>2020-09-18T10:05:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cédric Le Goater</name>
<email>clg@kaod.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-14T21:10:03+00:00</published>
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The check should be performed by the caller. This fixes a compile
error with W=1.

../arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c: In function ‘mlsd_8lsd_ea’:
../arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c:225:3: error: suggest braces around empty body in an ‘if’ statement [-Werror=empty-body]
   ; /* Invalid form. Should already be checked for by caller! */
   ^

Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater &lt;clg@kaod.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914211007.2285999-4-clg@kaod.org
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The check should be performed by the caller. This fixes a compile
error with W=1.

../arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c: In function ‘mlsd_8lsd_ea’:
../arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c:225:3: error: suggest braces around empty body in an ‘if’ statement [-Werror=empty-body]
   ; /* Invalid form. Should already be checked for by caller! */
   ^

Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater &lt;clg@kaod.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914211007.2285999-4-clg@kaod.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/uaccess: Switch __patch_instruction() to __put_user_asm_goto()</title>
<updated>2020-09-15T12:13:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-04T11:01:31+00:00</published>
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__patch_instruction() is the only user of __put_user_asm() outside
of asm/uaccess.h

Switch to the new __put_user_asm_goto() to enable retirement of
__put_user_asm() in a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b9745b122f4a9ae72cef445c61320022ab8b77b7.1599216721.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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__patch_instruction() is the only user of __put_user_asm() outside
of asm/uaccess.h

Switch to the new __put_user_asm_goto() to enable retirement of
__put_user_asm() in a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b9745b122f4a9ae72cef445c61320022ab8b77b7.1599216721.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: remove address space overrides using set_fs()</title>
<updated>2020-09-09T02:21:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-03T14:22:42+00:00</published>
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Stop providing the possibility to override the address space using
set_fs() now that there is no need for that any more.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Stop providing the possibility to override the address space using
set_fs() now that there is no need for that any more.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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