Re: x86 - clang / objtool status

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 09:43:24PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 10:40:09PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.o: warning: objtool: .altinstr_replacement+0x86: redundant UACCESS disable
> 
> Looking at this one, I think I agree with objtool.
> 
> PeterZ, Linus, I know y'all discussed this code a few months ago.
> 
> __copy_from_user() already does a CLAC in its error path.  So isn't the
> user_access_end() redundant for the __copy_from_user() error path?
> 
> Untested fix:

Run this past i915 people, but with the objtool patch I just posted it
reproduces with GCC and this patch makes it go away.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
> index 5fae0e50aad0..41dab9ea33cd 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
> @@ -1628,6 +1628,7 @@ static int check_relocations(const struct drm_i915_gem_exec_object2 *entry)
>  
>  static int eb_copy_relocations(const struct i915_execbuffer *eb)
>  {
> +	struct drm_i915_gem_relocation_entry *relocs;
>  	const unsigned int count = eb->buffer_count;
>  	unsigned int i;
>  	int err;
> @@ -1635,7 +1636,6 @@ static int eb_copy_relocations(const struct i915_execbuffer *eb)
>  	for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
>  		const unsigned int nreloc = eb->exec[i].relocation_count;
>  		struct drm_i915_gem_relocation_entry __user *urelocs;
> -		struct drm_i915_gem_relocation_entry *relocs;
>  		unsigned long size;
>  		unsigned long copied;
>  
> @@ -1663,14 +1663,8 @@ static int eb_copy_relocations(const struct i915_execbuffer *eb)
>  
>  			if (__copy_from_user((char *)relocs + copied,
>  					     (char __user *)urelocs + copied,
> -					     len)) {
> -end_user:
> -				user_access_end();
> -end:
> -				kvfree(relocs);
> -				err = -EFAULT;
> -				goto err;
> -			}
> +					     len))
> +				goto end;
>  
>  			copied += len;
>  		} while (copied < size);
> @@ -1699,10 +1693,14 @@ static int eb_copy_relocations(const struct i915_execbuffer *eb)
>  
>  	return 0;
>  
> +end_user:
> +	user_access_end();
> +end:
> +	kvfree(relocs);
> +	err = -EFAULT;
>  err:
>  	while (i--) {
> -		struct drm_i915_gem_relocation_entry *relocs =
> -			u64_to_ptr(typeof(*relocs), eb->exec[i].relocs_ptr);
> +		relocs = u64_to_ptr(typeof(*relocs), eb->exec[i].relocs_ptr);
>  		if (eb->exec[i].relocation_count)
>  			kvfree(relocs);
>  	}