linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][CFT][PATCHSET v1] uaccess unification

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Date:   Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:32:12 +0200
From:   Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...il.com>,
        Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>,
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        Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Richard Kuo <rkuo@...eaurora.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
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        Guan Xuetao <gxt@...c.pku.edu.cn>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Chris Zankel <chris@...kel.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC][CFT][PATCHSET v1] uaccess unification

On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 06:57:06 +0100
Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> 	The patchset currently in vfs.git#work.uaccess is the result;
> there's more work to do, but it takes care of a large part of the
> problems.  About 2.8KLoc removed, a lot of cruft is gone and semantics
> is hopefully in sync now.  All but two architectures (ia64 and metag)
> had been switched to new mechanism; for these two I'm afraid that I'll
> need serious help from maintainers.

I have tested the code in vfs.git#work.uaccess and in principle it works
for s390. I found one bug which would return an incorrect result
for copy_from_user if the access faults on the last page of the copy.
In that case the new code would return 0 instead of the remaining bytes.

This patch snippet should fix it, please just merge it into commit
"s390: get rid of zeroing, switch to RAW_COPY_USER"

diff --git a/arch/s390/lib/uaccess.c b/arch/s390/lib/uaccess.c
index b55172c..1e5bb2b 100644
--- a/arch/s390/lib/uaccess.c
+++ b/arch/s390/lib/uaccess.c
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ static inline unsigned long copy_from_user_mvcos(void *x, const void __user *ptr
 		"   nr    %4,%3\n"	/* %4 = (ptr + 4095) & -4096 */
 		"   slgr  %4,%1\n"
 		"   clgr  %0,%4\n"	/* copy crosses next page boundary? */
-		"   jnh   4f\n"
+		"   jnh   5f\n"
 		"3: .insn ss,0xc80000000000,0(%4,%2),0(%1),0\n"
 		"7: slgr  %0,%4\n"
 		"   j     5f\n"

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.