[PATCH v2 21/25] powerpc/signal32: Add and use unsafe_put_sigset_t()

From: Christophe Leroy
Date: Tue Aug 18 2020 - 13:20:39 EST


put_sigset_t() calls copy_to_user() for copying two words.

This is terribly inefficient for copying two words.

By switching to unsafe_put_user(), we end up with something as
simple as:

3cc: 81 3d 00 00 lwz r9,0(r29)
3d0: 91 26 00 b4 stw r9,180(r6)
3d4: 81 3d 00 04 lwz r9,4(r29)
3d8: 91 26 00 b8 stw r9,184(r6)

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c | 13 +++++++++++--
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
index 310d3b8d9ad5..3f9f315dd036 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ static inline int put_sigset_t(compat_sigset_t __user *uset, sigset_t *set)
return put_compat_sigset(uset, set, sizeof(*uset));
}

+#define unsafe_put_sigset_t unsafe_put_compat_sigset
+
static inline int get_sigset_t(sigset_t *set,
const compat_sigset_t __user *uset)
{
@@ -141,6 +143,13 @@ static inline int put_sigset_t(sigset_t __user *uset, sigset_t *set)
return copy_to_user(uset, set, sizeof(*uset));
}

+#define unsafe_put_sigset_t(uset, set, label) do { \
+ sigset_t __user *__us = uset ; \
+ const sigset_t *__s = set; \
+ \
+ unsafe_copy_to_user(__us, __s, sizeof(*__us), label); \
+} while (0)
+
static inline int get_sigset_t(sigset_t *set, const sigset_t __user *uset)
{
return copy_from_user(set, uset, sizeof(*uset));
@@ -780,10 +789,10 @@ int handle_rt_signal32(struct ksignal *ksig, sigset_t *oldset,
failed);
unsafe_put_user(PPC_INST_SC, &mctx->mc_pad[1], failed);
}
+ unsafe_put_sigset_t(&frame->uc.uc_sigmask, oldset, failed);
+
user_write_access_end();

- if (put_sigset_t(&frame->uc.uc_sigmask, oldset))
- goto badframe;
if (copy_siginfo_to_user(&frame->info, &ksig->info))
goto badframe;

--
2.25.0