Patch "x86/uaccess/64: Handle the caching of 4-byte nocache copies properly in __copy_user_nocache()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/uaccess/64: Handle the caching of 4-byte nocache copies properly in __copy_user_nocache()

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-uaccess-64-handle-the-caching-of-4-byte-nocache-copies-properly-in-__copy_user_nocache.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From a82eee7424525e34e98d821dd059ce14560a1e35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:24:17 -0700
Subject: x86/uaccess/64: Handle the caching of 4-byte nocache copies properly in __copy_user_nocache()

From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>

commit a82eee7424525e34e98d821dd059ce14560a1e35 upstream.

Data corruption issues were observed in tests which initiated
a system crash/reset while accessing BTT devices.  This problem
is reproducible.

The BTT driver calls pmem_rw_bytes() to update data in pmem
devices.  This interface calls __copy_user_nocache(), which
uses non-temporal stores so that the stores to pmem are
persistent.

__copy_user_nocache() uses non-temporal stores when a request
size is 8 bytes or larger (and is aligned by 8 bytes).  The
BTT driver updates the BTT map table, which entry size is
4 bytes.  Therefore, updates to the map table entries remain
cached, and are not written to pmem after a crash.

Change __copy_user_nocache() to use non-temporal store when
a request size is 4 bytes.  The change extends the current
byte-copy path for a less-than-8-bytes request, and does not
add any overhead to the regular path.

Reported-and-tested-by: Micah Parrish <micah.parrish@hpe.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Brian Boylston <brian.boylston@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455225857-12039-3-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com
[ Small readability edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S |   36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S
@@ -237,13 +237,14 @@ ENDPROC(copy_user_enhanced_fast_string)
  * Note: Cached memory copy is used when destination or size is not
  * naturally aligned. That is:
  *  - Require 8-byte alignment when size is 8 bytes or larger.
+ *  - Require 4-byte alignment when size is 4 bytes.
  */
 ENTRY(__copy_user_nocache)
 	ASM_STAC
 
-	/* If size is less than 8 bytes, go to byte copy */
+	/* If size is less than 8 bytes, go to 4-byte copy */
 	cmpl $8,%edx
-	jb .L_1b_cache_copy_entry
+	jb .L_4b_nocache_copy_entry
 
 	/* If destination is not 8-byte aligned, "cache" copy to align it */
 	ALIGN_DESTINATION
@@ -282,7 +283,7 @@ ENTRY(__copy_user_nocache)
 	movl %edx,%ecx
 	andl $7,%edx
 	shrl $3,%ecx
-	jz .L_1b_cache_copy_entry	/* jump if count is 0 */
+	jz .L_4b_nocache_copy_entry	/* jump if count is 0 */
 
 	/* Perform 8-byte nocache loop-copy */
 .L_8b_nocache_copy_loop:
@@ -294,11 +295,33 @@ ENTRY(__copy_user_nocache)
 	jnz .L_8b_nocache_copy_loop
 
 	/* If no byte left, we're done */
-.L_1b_cache_copy_entry:
+.L_4b_nocache_copy_entry:
+	andl %edx,%edx
+	jz .L_finish_copy
+
+	/* If destination is not 4-byte aligned, go to byte copy: */
+	movl %edi,%ecx
+	andl $3,%ecx
+	jnz .L_1b_cache_copy_entry
+
+	/* Set 4-byte copy count (1 or 0) and remainder */
+	movl %edx,%ecx
+	andl $3,%edx
+	shrl $2,%ecx
+	jz .L_1b_cache_copy_entry	/* jump if count is 0 */
+
+	/* Perform 4-byte nocache copy: */
+30:	movl (%rsi),%r8d
+31:	movnti %r8d,(%rdi)
+	leaq 4(%rsi),%rsi
+	leaq 4(%rdi),%rdi
+
+	/* If no bytes left, we're done: */
 	andl %edx,%edx
 	jz .L_finish_copy
 
 	/* Perform byte "cache" loop-copy for the remainder */
+.L_1b_cache_copy_entry:
 	movl %edx,%ecx
 .L_1b_cache_copy_loop:
 40:	movb (%rsi),%al
@@ -323,6 +346,9 @@ ENTRY(__copy_user_nocache)
 .L_fixup_8b_copy:
 	lea (%rdx,%rcx,8),%rdx
 	jmp .L_fixup_handle_tail
+.L_fixup_4b_copy:
+	lea (%rdx,%rcx,4),%rdx
+	jmp .L_fixup_handle_tail
 .L_fixup_1b_copy:
 	movl %ecx,%edx
 .L_fixup_handle_tail:
@@ -348,6 +374,8 @@ ENTRY(__copy_user_nocache)
 	_ASM_EXTABLE(16b,.L_fixup_4x8b_copy)
 	_ASM_EXTABLE(20b,.L_fixup_8b_copy)
 	_ASM_EXTABLE(21b,.L_fixup_8b_copy)
+	_ASM_EXTABLE(30b,.L_fixup_4b_copy)
+	_ASM_EXTABLE(31b,.L_fixup_4b_copy)
 	_ASM_EXTABLE(40b,.L_fixup_1b_copy)
 	_ASM_EXTABLE(41b,.L_fixup_1b_copy)
 ENDPROC(__copy_user_nocache)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from toshi.kani@hpe.com are

queue-4.4/x86-uaccess-64-handle-the-caching-of-4-byte-nocache-copies-properly-in-__copy_user_nocache.patch
queue-4.4/devm_memremap_release-fix-memremap-d-addr-handling.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-fix-vmalloc_fault-to-handle-large-pages-properly.patch
queue-4.4/x86-uaccess-64-make-the-__copy_user_nocache-assembly-code-more-readable.patch