The generic strncpy_from_user() is not really optimal, since it is
designed to work on both little-endian and big-endian. And on
little-endian you can simplify much of the logic to find the first zero
byte, since little-endian arithmetic doesn't have to worry about the
carry bit propagating into earlier bytes (only later bytes, which we
don't care about).
But I have patches to make the generic routines use the architecture-
specific <asm/word-at-a-time.h> infrastructure, so that we can regain
the little-endian optimizations. But before we do that, switch over to
the generic routines to make the patches each do just one well-defined
thing.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This makes the newly optimized x86 strncpy_from_user clear the final
bytes in the word past the final NUL character, rather than copy them as
the word they were in the source.
NOTE! Unlike the silly semantics of the libc 'strncpy()' function, the
kernel strncpy_from_user() has never cleared all of the end of the
destination buffer. And neither does it do so now: it only clears the
bytes at the end of the last word it copied.
So why make this change at all? It doesn't really cost us anything extra
(we have to calculate the mask to get the length anyway), and it means
that *if* any user actually cares about zeroing the whole buffer, they
can do a "memset()" before the strncpy_from_user(), and we will no
longer write random bytes after the NUL character.
In particular, the buffer contents will now at no point contain random
source data from beyond the end of the string.
In other words, it makes behavior a bit more repeatable at no new cost,
so it's a small cleanup. I've been carrying this as a patch for the
last few weeks or so in my tree (done at the same time the sign error
was fixed in commit 12e993b894), I might as well commit it.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The 'max' range needs to be unsigned, since the size of the user address
space is bigger than 2GB.
We know that 'count' is positive in 'long' (that is checked in the
caller), so we will truncate 'max' down to something that fits in a
signed long, but before we actually do that, that comparison needs to be
done in unsigned.
Bug introduced in commit 92ae03f2ef ("x86: merge 32/64-bit versions of
'strncpy_from_user()' and speed it up"). On x86-64 you can't trigger
this, since the user address space is much smaller than 63 bits, and on
x86-32 it works in practice, since you would seldom hit the strncpy
limits anyway.
I had actually tested the corner-cases, I had only tested them on
x86-64. Besides, I had only worried about the case of a pointer *close*
to the end of the address space, rather than really far away from it ;)
This also changes the "we hit the user-specified maximum" to return
'res', for the trivial reason that gcc seems to generate better code
that way. 'res' and 'count' are the same in that case, so it really
doesn't matter which one we return.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This merges the 32- and 64-bit versions of the x86 strncpy_from_user()
by just rewriting it in C rather than the ancient inline asm versions
that used lodsb/stosb and had been duplicated for (trivial) differences
between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
While doing that, it also speeds them up by doing the accesses a word at
a time. Finally, the new routines also properly handle the case of
hitting the end of the address space, which we have never done correctly
before (fs/namei.c has a hack around it for that reason).
Despite all these improvements, it actually removes more lines than it
adds, due to the de-duplication. Also, we no longer export (or define)
the legacy __strncpy_from_user() function (that was defined to not do
the user permission checks), since it's not actually used anywhere, and
the user address space checks are built in to the new code.
Other architecture maintainers have been notified that the old hack in
fs/namei.c will be going away in the 3.5 merge window, in case they
copied the x86 approach of being a bit cavalier about the end of the
address space.
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
copy_from_user_nmi() is used in oprofile and perf. Moving it to other
library functions like copy_from_user(). As this is x86 code for 32
and 64 bits, create a new file usercopy.c for unified code.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110607172413.GJ20052@erda.amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
