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* perf/x86: Fix broken LBR fixup codeStephane Eranian2012-06-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I noticed that the LBR fixups were not working anymore on programs where they used to. I tracked this down to a recent change to copy_from_user_nmi(): db0dc75d640 ("perf/x86: Check user address explicitly in copy_from_user_nmi()") This commit added a call to __range_not_ok() to the copy_from_user_nmi() routine. The problem is that the logic of the test must be reversed. __range_not_ok() returns 0 if the range is VALID. We want to return early from copy_from_user_nmi() if the range is NOT valid. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120611134426.GA7542@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* perf/x86: Check user address explicitly in copy_from_user_nmi()Arun Sharma2012-06-061-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334961696-19580-5-git-send-email-asharma@fb.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* x86: use generic strncpy_from_user routineLinus Torvalds2012-05-261-97/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* x86: make word-at-a-time strncpy_from_user clear bytes at the endLinus Torvalds2012-04-281-12/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 12e993b89464), I might as well commit it. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* x86-32: fix up strncpy_from_user() sign errorLinus Torvalds2012-04-151-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 92ae03f2ef99 ("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>
* x86: merge 32/64-bit versions of 'strncpy_from_user()' and speed it upLinus Torvalds2012-04-111-0/+103
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* x86, perf: Make copy_from_user_nmi() a library functionRobert Richter2011-07-211-0/+43
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>
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