[PATCH] mm: arm ready for split ptlock

Prepare arm for the split page_table_lock: three issues.

Signal handling's preserve and restore of iwmmxt context currently involves
reading and writing that context to and from user space, while holding
page_table_lock to secure the user page(s) against kswapd.  If we split the
lock, then the structure might span two pages, secured by to read into and
write from a kernel stack buffer, copying that out and in without locking (the
structure is 160 bytes in size, and here we're near the top of the kernel
stack).  Or would the overhead be noticeable?

arm_syscall's cmpxchg emulation use pte_offset_map_lock, instead of
pte_offset_map and mm-wide page_table_lock; and strictly, it should now also
take mmap_sem before descending to pmd, to guard against another thread
munmapping, and the page table pulled out beneath this thread.

Updated two comments in fault-armv.c.  adjust_pte is interesting, since its
modification of a pte in one part of the mm depends on the lock held when
calling update_mmu_cache for a pte in some other part of that mm.  This can't
be done with a split page_table_lock (and we've already taken the lowest lock
in the hierarchy here): so we'll have to disable split on arm, unless
CONFIG_CPU_CACHE_VIPT to ensures adjust_pte never used.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 78 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
index a94d75fef598..a917e3dd3666 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
@@ -139,93 +139,33 @@ struct iwmmxt_sigframe {
         unsigned long   storage[0x98/4];
 };
 
-static int page_present(struct mm_struct *mm, void __user *uptr, int wr)
-{
-        unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)uptr;
-        pgd_t *pgd = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
-        if (pgd_present(*pgd)) {
-                pmd_t *pmd = pmd_offset(pgd, addr);
-                if (pmd_present(*pmd)) {
-                        pte_t *pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, addr);
-                        return (pte_present(*pte) && (!wr || pte_write(*pte)));
-                }
-        }
-        return 0;
-}
-
-static int copy_locked(void __user *uptr, void *kptr, size_t size, int write,
-                       void (*copyfn)(void *, void __user *))
-{
-        unsigned char v, __user *userptr = uptr;
-        int err = 0;
-
-        do {
-                struct mm_struct *mm;
-
-                if (write) {
-                        __put_user_error(0, userptr, err);
-                        __put_user_error(0, userptr + size - 1, err);
-                } else {
-                        __get_user_error(v, userptr, err);
-                        __get_user_error(v, userptr + size - 1, err);
-                }
-
-                if (err)
-                        break;
-
-                mm = current->mm;
-                spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
-                if (page_present(mm, userptr, write) &&
-                    page_present(mm, userptr + size - 1, write)) {
-                        copyfn(kptr, uptr);
-                } else
-                        err = 1;
-                spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
-        } while (err);
-
-        return err;
-}
-
 static int preserve_iwmmxt_context(struct iwmmxt_sigframe *frame)
 {
-        int err = 0;
+        char kbuf[sizeof(*frame) + 8];
+        struct iwmmxt_sigframe *kframe;
 
         /* the iWMMXt context must be 64 bit aligned */
-        WARN_ON((unsigned long)frame & 7);
-
-        __put_user_error(IWMMXT_MAGIC0, &frame->magic0, err);
-        __put_user_error(IWMMXT_MAGIC1, &frame->magic1, err);
-
-        /*
-         * iwmmxt_task_copy() doesn't check user permissions.
-         * Let's do a dummy write on the upper boundary to ensure
-         * access to user mem is OK all way up.
-         */
-        err |= copy_locked(&frame->storage, current_thread_info(),
-                           sizeof(frame->storage), 1, iwmmxt_task_copy);
-        return err;
+        kframe = (struct iwmmxt_sigframe *)((unsigned long)(kbuf + 8) & ~7);
+        kframe->magic0 = IWMMXT_MAGIC0;
+        kframe->magic1 = IWMMXT_MAGIC1;
+        iwmmxt_task_copy(current_thread_info(), &kframe->storage);
+        return __copy_to_user(frame, kframe, sizeof(*frame));
 }
 
 static int restore_iwmmxt_context(struct iwmmxt_sigframe *frame)
 {
-        unsigned long magic0, magic1;
-        int err = 0;
+        char kbuf[sizeof(*frame) + 8];
+        struct iwmmxt_sigframe *kframe;
 
-        /* the iWMMXt context is 64 bit aligned */
-        WARN_ON((unsigned long)frame & 7);
-
-        /*
-         * Validate iWMMXt context signature.
-         * Also, iwmmxt_task_restore() doesn't check user permissions.
-         * Let's do a dummy write on the upper boundary to ensure
-         * access to user mem is OK all way up.
-         */
-        __get_user_error(magic0, &frame->magic0, err);
-        __get_user_error(magic1, &frame->magic1, err);
-        if (!err && magic0 == IWMMXT_MAGIC0 && magic1 == IWMMXT_MAGIC1)
-                err = copy_locked(&frame->storage, current_thread_info(),
-                                  sizeof(frame->storage), 0, iwmmxt_task_restore);
-        return err;
+        /* the iWMMXt context must be 64 bit aligned */
+        kframe = (struct iwmmxt_sigframe *)((unsigned long)(kbuf + 8) & ~7);
+        if (__copy_from_user(kframe, frame, sizeof(*frame)))
+                return -1;
+        if (kframe->magic0 != IWMMXT_MAGIC0 ||
+            kframe->magic1 != IWMMXT_MAGIC1)
+                return -1;
+        iwmmxt_task_restore(current_thread_info(), &kframe->storage);
+        return 0;
 }
 
 #endif