linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] futex: Fix fault_in_user

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Date:   Tue, 17 Aug 2021 09:07:32 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...il.com>
Cc:     Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...ngson.cn>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        "open list:MIPS" <linux-mips@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Xuefeng Li <lixuefeng@...ngson.cn>,
        Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>,
        Hongchen Zhang <zhanghongchen@...ngson.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] futex: Fix fault_in_user_writeable()

On Tue, Aug 17 2021 at 09:53, Huacai Chen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 3:03 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>> That's surely one way to fix that. If that does not work for whatever
>> reason, then we really don't want this find_vma() hack there, but rather
>> something like:
> I don't know why find_vma() is unacceptable here, there is also
> find_vma() in fixup_user_fault().

Wrong. find_extend_vma() != find_vma(). Aside of that fixup_user_fault()
does way more than that.

>>     if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_USER_FAULT_VOODOO) && get_user(&tmp, uaddr))
>>         return -EFAULT;
>
> get_user() may be better than find_vma(), but can we drop
> CONFIG_ARCH_USER_FAULT_VOODOO here? On those "W implies R" archs,
> get_user() always success, this can simplify the logic.

For architectures which imply R fixup_user_fault() is way more
effinicient than taking the fault on get_user() and then invoking
fixup_user_fault() to ensure that the mapping is writeable.

No, we are not making stuff less efficient just because of MIPS.

Thanks,

        tglx