linux-kernel - [PATCH -fixes v2] riscv: uaccess: Return the number of bytes effectively not copied

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Date:   Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:06:04 +0200
From:   Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>
To:     Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Alan Kao <alankao@...estech.com>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>,
        Bo YU <tsu.yubo@...il.com>,
        Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@...el32.net>,
        Björn Töpel <bjorn@...osinc.com>
Subject: [PATCH -fixes v2] riscv: uaccess: Return the number of bytes effectively not copied

It was reported that the riscv kernel hangs while executing the test
in [1].

Indeed, the test hangs when trying to write a buffer to a file. The
problem is that the riscv implementation of raw_copy_from_user() does not
return the correct number of bytes not written when an exception happens
and is fixed up, instead it always returns the initial size to copy,
even if some bytes were actually copied.

generic_perform_write() pre-faults the user pages and bails out if nothing
can be written, otherwise it will access the userspace buffer: here the
riscv implementation keeps returning it was not able to copy any byte
though the pre-faulting indicates otherwise. So generic_perform_write()
keeps retrying to access the user memory and ends up in an infinite
loop.

Note that before the commit mentioned in [1] that introduced this
regression, it worked because generic_perform_write() would bail out if
only one byte could not be written.

So fix this by returning the number of bytes effectively not written in
__asm_copy_[to|from]_user() and __clear_user(), as it is expected.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230309151841.bomov6hq3ybyp42a@debian/ [1]
Fixes: ebcbd75e3962 ("riscv: Fix the bug in memory access fixup code")
Reported-by: Bo YU <tsu.yubo@...il.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230309151841.bomov6hq3ybyp42a@debian/#t
Reported-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@...el32.net>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/ZNOnCakhwIeue3yr@aurel32.net/
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@...osinc.com>
Tested-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@...el32.net>
Reviewed-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@...el32.net>
---

Changes in v2:
  - Add RB/TB from Bjorn and Aurelien
  - Fix commit changelog as it incorrectly stated the functions should
    return the number of bytes copied, whereas it is actually the number
    of bytes *not* written
  - Improved changelog a bit in the 2nd paragraph

 arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S b/arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S
index ec486e5369d9..09b47ebacf2e 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S
+++ b/arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S
@@ -17,8 +17,11 @@ ENTRY(__asm_copy_from_user)
 	li t6, SR_SUM
 	csrs CSR_STATUS, t6
 
-	/* Save for return value */
-	mv	t5, a2
+	/*
+	 * Save the terminal address which will be used to compute the number
+	 * of bytes copied in case of a fixup exception.
+	 */
+	add	t5, a0, a2
 
 	/*
 	 * Register allocation for code below:
@@ -176,7 +179,7 @@ ENTRY(__asm_copy_from_user)
 10:
 	/* Disable access to user memory */
 	csrc CSR_STATUS, t6
-	mv a0, t5
+	sub a0, t5, a0
 	ret
 ENDPROC(__asm_copy_to_user)
 ENDPROC(__asm_copy_from_user)
@@ -228,7 +231,7 @@ ENTRY(__clear_user)
 11:
 	/* Disable access to user memory */
 	csrc CSR_STATUS, t6
-	mv a0, a1
+	sub a0, a3, a0
 	ret
 ENDPROC(__clear_user)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__clear_user)
-- 
2.39.2