Historically the uaccess code pre-initializes the result of get_user()
(and now also __get_kernel_nofault()) to zero and uses the result as
input parameter for inline assemblies. This is different to what most,
if not all, other architectures are doing, which set the result to
zero within the exception handler in case of a fault.
Use the new extable mechanism and handle zeroing of the result within
the exception handler in case of a fault.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
This is more or less a combination of commit 2e77a62cb3 ("arm64:
extable: add a dedicated uaccess handler") and commit 4b5305decc
("x86/extable: Extend extable functionality").
To describe the problem that needs to solved let's cite the full arm64
commit message:
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For inline assembly, we place exception fixups out-of-line in the
`.fixup` section such that these are out of the way of the fast path.
This has a few drawbacks:
* Since the fixup code is anonymous, backtraces will symbolize fixups
as offsets from the nearest prior symbol, currently
`__entry_tramp_text_end`. This is confusing, and painful to debug
without access to the relevant vmlinux.
* Since the exception handler adjusts the PC to execute the fixup, and
the fixup uses a direct branch back into the function it fixes,
backtraces of fixups miss the original function. This is confusing,
and violates requirements for RELIABLE_STACKTRACE (and therefore
LIVEPATCH).
* Inline assembly and associated fixups are generated from templates,
and we have many copies of logically identical fixups which only
differ in which specific registers are written to and which address
is branched to at the end of the fixup. This is potentially wasteful
of I-cache resources, and makes it hard to add additional logic to
fixups without significant bloat.
This patch address all three concerns for inline uaccess fixups by
adding a dedicated exception handler which updates registers in
exception context and subsequent returns back into the function which
faulted, removing the need for fixups specialized to each faulting
instruction.
Other than backtracing, there should be no functional change as a result
of this patch.
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Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Follow arm64, riscv, and x86 and change extable layout to common
"relative table with data". This allows to get rid of s390 specific
code in sorttable.c.
The main difference to before is that extable entries do not contain a
relative function pointer anymore. Instead data and type fields are
added.
The type field is used to indicate which exception handler needs to be
called, while the data field is currently unused.
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Add and use fixup_exception helper function in order to remove the
duplicated exception handler fixup code at several places.
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Just like arm64, riscv, and x86 move extable related functions to
mm/extable.c. This is currently only one function, but this will
change with subsequent changes.
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Replace the arch specific versions of search_extable() and
sort_extable() with calls to the generic ones, which now support
relative exception tables as well.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The normalization pass in the sorting routine of the relative exception
table serves two purposes:
- it ensures that the address fields of the exception table entries are
fully ordered, so that no ambiguities arise between entries with
identical instruction offsets (i.e., when two instructions that are
exactly 8 bytes apart each have an exception table entry associated with
them)
- it ensures that the offsets of both the instruction and the fixup fields
of each entry are relative to their final location after sorting.
Commit eb608fb366 ("s390/exceptions: switch to relative exception table
entries") ported the relative exception table format from x86, but modified
the sorting routine to only normalize the instruction offset field and not
the fixup offset field. The result is that the fixup offset of each entry
will be relative to the original location of the entry before sorting,
likely leading to crashes when those entries are dereferenced.
Fixes: eb608fb366 ("s390/exceptions: switch to relative exception table entries")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This is the s390 port of 70627654 "x86, extable: Switch to relative
exception table entries".
Reduces the size of our exception tables by 50% on 64 bit builds.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Heiko Carstens