netdev - [PATCH net-next] scm: optimize put

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Date:   Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:37:53 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] scm: optimize put_cmsg()

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Calling two copy_to_user() for very small regions has very high overhead.

Switch to inlined unsafe_put_user() to save one stac/clac sequence,
and avoid copy_to_user().

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
---
 net/core/scm.c | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/scm.c b/net/core/scm.c
index 8156d4fb8a3966122fdfcfd0ebc9e5520aa7b67c..bd96c922041d22a2f3b7ee73e4b3183316f9b616 100644
--- a/net/core/scm.c
+++ b/net/core/scm.c
@@ -228,14 +228,16 @@ int put_cmsg(struct msghdr * msg, int level, int type, int len, void *data)
 
 	if (msg->msg_control_is_user) {
 		struct cmsghdr __user *cm = msg->msg_control_user;
-		struct cmsghdr cmhdr;
 
-		cmhdr.cmsg_level = level;
-		cmhdr.cmsg_type = type;
-		cmhdr.cmsg_len = cmlen;
-		if (copy_to_user(cm, &cmhdr, sizeof cmhdr) ||
-		    copy_to_user(CMSG_USER_DATA(cm), data, cmlen - sizeof(*cm)))
-			return -EFAULT;
+		if (!user_write_access_begin(cm, cmlen))
+			goto efault;
+
+		unsafe_put_user(len, &cm->cmsg_len, efault_end);
+		unsafe_put_user(level, &cm->cmsg_level, efault_end);
+		unsafe_put_user(type, &cm->cmsg_type, efault_end);
+		unsafe_copy_to_user(CMSG_USER_DATA(cm), data,
+				    cmlen - sizeof(*cm), efault_end);
+		user_write_access_end();
 	} else {
 		struct cmsghdr *cm = msg->msg_control;
 
@@ -249,6 +251,11 @@ int put_cmsg(struct msghdr * msg, int level, int type, int len, void *data)
 	msg->msg_control += cmlen;
 	msg->msg_controllen -= cmlen;
 	return 0;
+
+efault_end:
+	user_write_access_end();
+efault:
+	return -EFAULT;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(put_cmsg);
 
-- 
2.31.1.368.gbe11c130af-goog