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>
Use local labels in .set directives to avoid potential compile errors
with LTO + clang. See commit 334865b291 ("x86/extable: Prefer local
labels in .set directives") for further details.
Since s390 doesn't support LTO currently this doesn't fix a real bug
for now, but helps to avoid problems as soon as required pieces have
been added to llvm.
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>
Follow arm64 and riscv and move the EX_TABLE define to asm-extable.h
which is a lot less generic than the current linkage.h.
Also make sure that all files which contain EX_TABLE usages actually
include the new header file. This should make sure that the files
always compile and there won't be any random compile breakage due to
other header file dependencies.
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>
