linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] riscv: implement user_access

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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 09:38:33 +1000
From: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@...storrent.com>
To: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>,
 Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>, Palmer Dabbelt
 <palmer@...belt.com>, Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>
Cc: linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] riscv: implement user_access_begin and families



On 25/6/2024 2:04 pm, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> Currently, when a function like strncpy_from_user() is called,
> the userspace access protection is disabled and enabled
> for every word read.
> 
> By implementing user_access_begin and families, the protection
> is disabled at the beginning of the copy and enabled at the end.
> 
> The __inttype macro is borrowed from x86 implementation.
> 

Beat me to it, I've written an almost identical patch. The performance 
improvement where the unsafe_ variants are used is very good even 
without the rest of the series.

Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@...storrent.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>
> ---
>   arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 63 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h
> index 72ec1d9bd3f3..09d4ca37522c 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h
> @@ -28,6 +28,19 @@
>   #define __disable_user_access()							\
>   	__asm__ __volatile__ ("csrc sstatus, %0" : : "r" (SR_SUM) : "memory")
>   
> +/*
> + * This is the smallest unsigned integer type that can fit a value
> + * (up to 'long long')
> + */
> +#define __inttype(x) __typeof__(		\
> +	__typefits(x,char,			\
> +	  __typefits(x,short,			\
> +	    __typefits(x,int,			\
> +	      __typefits(x,long,0ULL)))))
> +
> +#define __typefits(x,type,not) \
> +	__builtin_choose_expr(sizeof(x)<=sizeof(type),(unsigned type)0,not)
> +
>   /*
>    * The exception table consists of pairs of addresses: the first is the
>    * address of an instruction that is allowed to fault, and the second is
> @@ -335,6 +348,56 @@ do {									\
>   		goto err_label;						\
>   } while (0)
>   
> +static __must_check __always_inline bool user_access_begin(const void __user *ptr, size_t len)
> +{
> +	if (unlikely(!access_ok(ptr,len)))
> +		return 0;
> +	__enable_user_access();
> +	return 1;
> +}
> +#define user_access_begin(a,b)	user_access_begin(a,b)
> +#define user_access_end()	__disable_user_access();
> +
> +static inline unsigned long user_access_save(void) { return 0UL; }
> +static inline void user_access_restore(unsigned long enabled) { }
> +
> +#define unsafe_put_user(x, ptr, label)	do {				\
> +	long __kr_err = 0;						\
> +	__put_user_nocheck(x, (ptr), __kr_err);				\
> +	if (__kr_err) goto label;					\
> +} while (0)
> +
> +#define unsafe_get_user(x, ptr, label)	do {				\
> +	long __kr_err = 0;						\
> +	__inttype(*(ptr)) __gu_val;					\
> +	__get_user_nocheck(__gu_val, (ptr), __kr_err);			\
> +	(x) = (__force __typeof__(*(ptr)))__gu_val;			\
> +	if (__kr_err) goto label;					\
> +} while (0)
> +
> +/*
> + * We want the unsafe accessors to always be inlined and use
> + * the error labels - thus the macro games.
> + */
> +#define unsafe_copy_loop(dst, src, len, type, label)				\
> +	while (len >= sizeof(type)) {						\
> +		unsafe_put_user(*(type *)(src),(type __user *)(dst),label);	\
> +		dst += sizeof(type);						\
> +		src += sizeof(type);						\
> +		len -= sizeof(type);						\
> +	}
> +
> +#define unsafe_copy_to_user(_dst,_src,_len,label)			\
> +do {									\
> +	char __user *__ucu_dst = (_dst);				\
> +	const char *__ucu_src = (_src);					\
> +	size_t __ucu_len = (_len);					\
> +	unsafe_copy_loop(__ucu_dst, __ucu_src, __ucu_len, u64, label);	\
> +	unsafe_copy_loop(__ucu_dst, __ucu_src, __ucu_len, u32, label);	\
> +	unsafe_copy_loop(__ucu_dst, __ucu_src, __ucu_len, u16, label);	\
> +	unsafe_copy_loop(__ucu_dst, __ucu_src, __ucu_len, u8, label);	\
> +} while (0)
> +
>   #else /* CONFIG_MMU */
>   #include <asm-generic/uaccess.h>
>   #endif /* CONFIG_MMU */