x86, powerpc: Rename memcpy_mcsafe() to copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}()

In reaction to a proposal to introduce a memcpy_mcsafe_fast()
implementation Linus points out that memcpy_mcsafe() is poorly named
relative to communicating the scope of the interface. Specifically what
addresses are valid to pass as source, destination, and what faults /
exceptions are handled.

Of particular concern is that even though x86 might be able to handle
the semantics of copy_mc_to_user() with its common copy_user_generic()
implementation other archs likely need / want an explicit path for this
case:

  On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:28 AM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
  >
  > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 6:21 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
  > >
  > > However now I see that copy_user_generic() works for the wrong reason.
  > > It works because the exception on the source address due to poison
  > > looks no different than a write fault on the user address to the
  > > caller, it's still just a short copy. So it makes copy_to_user() work
  > > for the wrong reason relative to the name.
  >
  > Right.
  >
  > And it won't work that way on other architectures. On x86, we have a
  > generic function that can take faults on either side, and we use it
  > for both cases (and for the "in_user" case too), but that's an
  > artifact of the architecture oddity.
  >
  > In fact, it's probably wrong even on x86 - because it can hide bugs -
  > but writing those things is painful enough that everybody prefers
  > having just one function.

Replace a single top-level memcpy_mcsafe() with either
copy_mc_to_user(), or copy_mc_to_kernel().

Introduce an x86 copy_mc_fragile() name as the rename for the
low-level x86 implementation formerly named memcpy_mcsafe(). It is used
as the slow / careful backend that is supplanted by a fast
copy_mc_generic() in a follow-on patch.

One side-effect of this reorganization is that separating copy_mc_64.S
to its own file means that perf no longer needs to track dependencies
for its memcpy_64.S benchmarks.

 [ bp: Massage a bit. ]

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjSqtXAqfUJxFtWNwmguFASTgB0dz1dT3V-78Quiezqbg@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160195561680.2163339.11574962055305783722.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h
index 00699903f1ef..20a35373cafc 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -435,6 +435,32 @@ do {								\
 extern unsigned long __copy_tofrom_user(void __user *to,
 		const void __user *from, unsigned long size);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_COPY_MC
+unsigned long __must_check
+copy_mc_generic(void *to, const void *from, unsigned long size);
+
+static inline unsigned long __must_check
+copy_mc_to_kernel(void *to, const void *from, unsigned long size)
+{
+	return copy_mc_generic(to, from, size);
+}
+#define copy_mc_to_kernel copy_mc_to_kernel
+
+static inline unsigned long __must_check
+copy_mc_to_user(void __user *to, const void *from, unsigned long n)
+{
+	if (likely(check_copy_size(from, n, true))) {
+		if (access_ok(to, n)) {
+			allow_write_to_user(to, n);
+			n = copy_mc_generic((void *)to, from, n);
+			prevent_write_to_user(to, n);
+		}
+	}
+
+	return n;
+}
+#endif
+
 #ifdef __powerpc64__
 static inline unsigned long
 raw_copy_in_user(void __user *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
@@ -523,20 +549,6 @@ raw_copy_to_user(void __user *to, const void *from, unsigned long n)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static __always_inline unsigned long __must_check
-copy_to_user_mcsafe(void __user *to, const void *from, unsigned long n)
-{
-	if (likely(check_copy_size(from, n, true))) {
-		if (access_ok(to, n)) {
-			allow_write_to_user(to, n);
-			n = memcpy_mcsafe((void *)to, from, n);
-			prevent_write_to_user(to, n);
-		}
-	}
-
-	return n;
-}
-
 unsigned long __arch_clear_user(void __user *addr, unsigned long size);
 
 static inline unsigned long clear_user(void __user *addr, unsigned long size)