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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-04-06 14:32:32 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-04-11 09:41:28 -0700
commit92ae03f2ef99fbc23bfa9080d6b58f25227bd7ef (patch)
treebccc4d78e8d7fb56f62189c3c25f73cdf01a5f5a /arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
parent79549c6dfda0603dba9a70a53467ce62d9335c33 (diff)
x86: merge 32/64-bit versions of 'strncpy_from_user()' and speed it up
This merges the 32- and 64-bit versions of the x86 strncpy_from_user() by just rewriting it in C rather than the ancient inline asm versions that used lodsb/stosb and had been duplicated for (trivial) differences between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. While doing that, it also speeds them up by doing the accesses a word at a time. Finally, the new routines also properly handle the case of hitting the end of the address space, which we have never done correctly before (fs/namei.c has a hack around it for that reason). Despite all these improvements, it actually removes more lines than it adds, due to the de-duplication. Also, we no longer export (or define) the legacy __strncpy_from_user() function (that was defined to not do the user permission checks), since it's not actually used anywhere, and the user address space checks are built in to the new code. Other architecture maintainers have been notified that the old hack in fs/namei.c will be going away in the 3.5 merge window, in case they copied the x86 approach of being a bit cavalier about the end of the address space. Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c103
1 files changed, 103 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
index 97be9cb54483..57252c928f56 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <asm/word-at-a-time.h>
+
/*
* best effort, GUP based copy_from_user() that is NMI-safe
*/
@@ -41,3 +43,104 @@ copy_from_user_nmi(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
return len;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(copy_from_user_nmi);
+
+static inline unsigned long count_bytes(unsigned long mask)
+{
+ mask = (mask - 1) & ~mask;
+ mask >>= 7;
+ return count_masked_bytes(mask);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Do a strncpy, return length of string without final '\0'.
+ * 'count' is the user-supplied count (return 'count' if we
+ * hit it), 'max' is the address space maximum (and we return
+ * -EFAULT if we hit it).
+ */
+static inline long do_strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const char __user *src, long count, long max)
+{
+ long res = 0;
+
+ /*
+ * Truncate 'max' to the user-specified limit, so that
+ * we only have one limit we need to check in the loop
+ */
+ if (max > count)
+ max = count;
+
+ while (max >= sizeof(unsigned long)) {
+ unsigned long c;
+
+ /* Fall back to byte-at-a-time if we get a page fault */
+ if (unlikely(__get_user(c,(unsigned long __user *)(src+res))))
+ break;
+ /* This can write a few bytes past the NUL character, but that's ok */
+ *(unsigned long *)(dst+res) = c;
+ c = has_zero(c);
+ if (c)
+ return res + count_bytes(c);
+ res += sizeof(unsigned long);
+ max -= sizeof(unsigned long);
+ }
+
+ while (max) {
+ char c;
+
+ if (unlikely(__get_user(c,src+res)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ dst[res] = c;
+ if (!c)
+ return res;
+ res++;
+ max--;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Uhhuh. We hit 'max'. But was that the user-specified maximum
+ * too? If so, that's ok - we got as much as the user asked for.
+ */
+ if (res >= count)
+ return count;
+
+ /*
+ * Nope: we hit the address space limit, and we still had more
+ * characters the caller would have wanted. That's an EFAULT.
+ */
+ return -EFAULT;
+}
+
+/**
+ * strncpy_from_user: - Copy a NUL terminated string from userspace.
+ * @dst: Destination address, in kernel space. This buffer must be at
+ * least @count bytes long.
+ * @src: Source address, in user space.
+ * @count: Maximum number of bytes to copy, including the trailing NUL.
+ *
+ * Copies a NUL-terminated string from userspace to kernel space.
+ *
+ * On success, returns the length of the string (not including the trailing
+ * NUL).
+ *
+ * If access to userspace fails, returns -EFAULT (some data may have been
+ * copied).
+ *
+ * If @count is smaller than the length of the string, copies @count bytes
+ * and returns @count.
+ */
+long
+strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const char __user *src, long count)
+{
+ unsigned long max_addr, src_addr;
+
+ if (unlikely(count <= 0))
+ return 0;
+
+ max_addr = current_thread_info()->addr_limit.seg;
+ src_addr = (unsigned long)src;
+ if (likely(src_addr < max_addr)) {
+ unsigned long max = max_addr - src_addr;
+ return do_strncpy_from_user(dst, src, count, max);
+ }
+ return -EFAULT;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(strncpy_from_user);