From d19f5e41b344a057bb2450024a807476f30978d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Helge Deller Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 11:59:15 +0100 Subject: parisc: Clean up fixup routines for get_user()/put_user() Al Viro noticed that userspace accesses via get_user()/put_user() can be simplified a lot with regard to usage of the exception handling. This patch implements a fixup routine for get_user() and put_user() in such that the exception handler will automatically load -EFAULT into the register %r8 (the error value) in case on a fault on userspace. Additionally the fixup routine will zero the target register on fault in case of a get_user() call. The target register is extracted out of the faulting assembly instruction. This patch brings a few benefits over the old implementation: 1. Exception handling gets much cleaner, easier and smaller in size. 2. Helper functions like fixup_get_user_skip_1 (all of fixup.S) can be dropped. 3. No need to hardcode %r9 as target register for get_user() any longer. This helps the compiler register allocator and thus creates less assembler statements. 4. No dependency on the exception_data contents any longer. 5. Nested faults will be handled cleanly. Reported-by: Al Viro Cc: # v4.9+ Signed-off-by: Helge Deller --- arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c | 10 ---------- 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/parisc/kernel') diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c index 7484b3d11e0d..c6d6272a934f 100644 --- a/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c +++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c @@ -47,16 +47,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cmpxchg_u64); EXPORT_SYMBOL(lclear_user); EXPORT_SYMBOL(lstrnlen_user); -/* Global fixups - defined as int to avoid creation of function pointers */ -extern int fixup_get_user_skip_1; -extern int fixup_get_user_skip_2; -extern int fixup_put_user_skip_1; -extern int fixup_put_user_skip_2; -EXPORT_SYMBOL(fixup_get_user_skip_1); -EXPORT_SYMBOL(fixup_get_user_skip_2); -EXPORT_SYMBOL(fixup_put_user_skip_1); -EXPORT_SYMBOL(fixup_put_user_skip_2); - #ifndef CONFIG_64BIT /* Needed so insmod can set dp value */ extern int $global$; -- cgit