[PATCH] x86/boot: Avoid redundant address overlap tests in memcpy().

From: Kuniyuki Iwashima
Date: Sat Jan 22 2022 - 20:58:32 EST


When 'dest' and 'src' overlap, the boot time memcpy() calls memmove(),
which tests the same condition again. GCC does not optimise it for now.
Let's split the copy part of memmove() as ____memmove() and call it from
memcpy().

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c | 17 +++++++++++------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
index 81fc1eaa3..4c0edb5d6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
@@ -50,26 +50,31 @@ void *memset(void *s, int c, size_t n)
return s;
}

-void *memmove(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
+void *____memmove(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
{
unsigned char *d = dest;
const unsigned char *s = src;

- if (d <= s || d - s >= n)
- return ____memcpy(dest, src, n);
-
while (n-- > 0)
d[n] = s[n];

return dest;
}

-/* Detect and warn about potential overlaps, but handle them with memmove. */
+void *memmove(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
+{
+ if (dest <= src || dest - src >= n)
+ return ____memcpy(dest, src, n);
+
+ return ____memmove(dest, src, n);
+}
+
+/* Detect and warn about potential overlaps, but handle them with ____memmove(). */
void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
{
if (dest > src && dest - src < n) {
warn("Avoiding potentially unsafe overlapping memcpy()!");
- return memmove(dest, src, n);
+ return ____memmove(dest, src, n);
}
return ____memcpy(dest, src, n);
}
--
2.30.2