linux-kernel - [PATCH] pmem: fix __copy_user

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Date:   Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:56:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
        Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Eric Sandeen <esandeen@...hat.com>,
        Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
        "Kani, Toshi" <toshi.kani@....com>,
        "Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@....com>,
        "Tadakamadla, Rajesh (DCIG/CDI/HPS Perf)" 
        <rajesh.tadakamadla@....com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>
Subject: [PATCH] pmem: fix __copy_user_flushcache



On Wed, 16 Sep 2020, Dan Williams wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:24 AM Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 16 Sep 2020, Dan Williams wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 3:57 AM Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm submitting this patch that adds the required exports (so that we could
> > > > use __copy_from_user_flushcache on x86, arm64 and powerpc). Please, queue
> > > > it for the next merge window.
> > >
> > > Why? This should go with the first user, and it's not clear that it
> > > needs to be relative to the current dax_operations export scheme.
> >
> > Before nvfs gets included in the kernel, I need to distribute it as a
> > module. So, it would make my maintenance easier. But if you don't want to
> > export it now, no problem, I can just copy __copy_user_flushcache from the
> > kernel to the module.
> 
> That sounds a better plan than exporting symbols with no in-kernel consumer.

BTW, this function is buggy. Here I'm submitting the patch.



From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>

If we copy less than 8 bytes and if the destination crosses a cache line,
__copy_user_flushcache would invalidate only the first cache line. This
patch makes it invalidate the second cache line as well.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org

---
 arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c	2020-09-05 10:01:27.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c	2020-09-16 20:48:31.000000000 +0200
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ long __copy_user_flushcache(void *dst, c
 	 */
 	if (size < 8) {
 		if (!IS_ALIGNED(dest, 4) || size != 4)
-			clean_cache_range(dst, 1);
+			clean_cache_range(dst, size);
 	} else {
 		if (!IS_ALIGNED(dest, 8)) {
 			dest = ALIGN(dest, boot_cpu_data.x86_clflush_size);