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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-12-17 10:05:19 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-12-17 10:05:19 -0800
commit9fd4470ff4974c41b1db43c3b355b9085af9c12a (patch)
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Use the new batched user accesses in generic user string handling
This converts the generic user string functions to use the batched user access functions. It makes a big difference on Skylake, which is the first x86 microarchitecture to implement SMAP. The STAC/CLAC instructions are not very fast, and doing them for each access inside the loop that copies strings from user space (which is what the pathname handling does for every pathname the kernel uses, for example) is very inefficient. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/strncpy_from_user.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/strncpy_from_user.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/strncpy_from_user.c b/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
index e0af6ff73d14..33840324138c 100644
--- a/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
+++ b/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static inline long do_strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const char __user *src, long
unsigned long c, data;
/* Fall back to byte-at-a-time if we get a page fault */
- if (unlikely(__get_user(c,(unsigned long __user *)(src+res))))
+ if (unlikely(unsafe_get_user(c,(unsigned long __user *)(src+res))))
break;
*(unsigned long *)(dst+res) = c;
if (has_zero(c, &data, &constants)) {
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ byte_at_a_time:
while (max) {
char c;
- if (unlikely(__get_user(c,src+res)))
+ if (unlikely(unsafe_get_user(c,src+res)))
return -EFAULT;
dst[res] = c;
if (!c)
@@ -107,7 +107,12 @@ long strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const char __user *src, long count)
src_addr = (unsigned long)src;
if (likely(src_addr < max_addr)) {
unsigned long max = max_addr - src_addr;
- return do_strncpy_from_user(dst, src, count, max);
+ long retval;
+
+ user_access_begin();
+ retval = do_strncpy_from_user(dst, src, count, max);
+ user_access_end();
+ return retval;
}
return -EFAULT;
}