From 83b0b15bcb0f700e7c1d070aae2e7841170a4c33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 14:47:54 -0500
Subject: rseq: Remove superfluous rseq_len from task_struct

The rseq system call, when invoked with flags of "0" or
"RSEQ_FLAG_UNREGISTER" values, expects the rseq_len parameter to
be equal to sizeof(struct rseq), which is fixed-size and fixed-layout,
specified in uapi linux/rseq.h.

Expecting a fixed size for rseq_len is a design choice that ensures
multiple libraries and application defining __rseq_abi in the same
process agree on its exact size.

Considering that this size is and will always be the same value, there
is no point in saving this value within task_struct rseq_len. Remove
this field from task_struct.

No change in functionality intended.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Ben Maurer <bmaurer@fb.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Chris Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190305194755.2602-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/rseq.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'kernel/rseq.c')

diff --git a/kernel/rseq.c b/kernel/rseq.c
index 849afe749131..9424ee90589e 100644
--- a/kernel/rseq.c
+++ b/kernel/rseq.c
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(rseq, struct rseq __user *, rseq, u32, rseq_len,
 		/* Unregister rseq for current thread. */
 		if (current->rseq != rseq || !current->rseq)
 			return -EINVAL;
-		if (current->rseq_len != rseq_len)
+		if (rseq_len != sizeof(*rseq))
 			return -EINVAL;
 		if (current->rseq_sig != sig)
 			return -EPERM;
@@ -321,7 +321,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(rseq, struct rseq __user *, rseq, u32, rseq_len,
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;
 		current->rseq = NULL;
-		current->rseq_len = 0;
 		current->rseq_sig = 0;
 		return 0;
 	}
@@ -335,7 +334,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(rseq, struct rseq __user *, rseq, u32, rseq_len,
 		 * the provided address differs from the prior
 		 * one.
 		 */
-		if (current->rseq != rseq || current->rseq_len != rseq_len)
+		if (current->rseq != rseq || rseq_len != sizeof(*rseq))
 			return -EINVAL;
 		if (current->rseq_sig != sig)
 			return -EPERM;
@@ -353,7 +352,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(rseq, struct rseq __user *, rseq, u32, rseq_len,
 	if (!access_ok(rseq, rseq_len))
 		return -EFAULT;
 	current->rseq = rseq;
-	current->rseq_len = rseq_len;
 	current->rseq_sig = sig;
 	/*
 	 * If rseq was previously inactive, and has just been
-- 
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