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ARM: spectre-v1: use get_user() for __get_user()
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Fixing __get_user() for spectre variant 1 is not sane: we would have to
add address space bounds checking in order to validate that the location
should be accessed, and then zero the address if found to be invalid.

Since __get_user() is supposed to avoid the bounds check, and this is
exactly what get_user() does, there's no point having two different
implementations that are doing the same thing.  So, when the Spectre
workarounds are required, make __get_user() an alias of get_user().

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
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Russell King committed Aug 2, 2018
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17 changes: 11 additions & 6 deletions arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
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Expand Up @@ -250,6 +250,16 @@ static inline void set_fs(mm_segment_t fs)
#define user_addr_max() \
(uaccess_kernel() ? ~0UL : get_fs())

#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_SPECTRE
/*
* When mitigating Spectre variant 1, it is not worth fixing the non-
* verifying accessors, because we need to add verification of the
* address space there. Force these to use the standard get_user()
* version instead.
*/
#define __get_user(x, ptr) get_user(x, ptr)
#else

/*
* The "__xxx" versions of the user access functions do not verify the
* address space - it must have been done previously with a separate
Expand All @@ -266,12 +276,6 @@ static inline void set_fs(mm_segment_t fs)
__gu_err; \
})

#define __get_user_error(x, ptr, err) \
({ \
__get_user_err((x), (ptr), err); \
(void) 0; \
})

#define __get_user_err(x, ptr, err) \
do { \
unsigned long __gu_addr = (unsigned long)(ptr); \
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -331,6 +335,7 @@ do { \

#define __get_user_asm_word(x, addr, err) \
__get_user_asm(x, addr, err, ldr)
#endif


#define __put_user_switch(x, ptr, __err, __fn) \
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