Re: [PATCH RESEND v3 6/6] powerpc/signal: Use unsafe_copy_siginfo_to_user()

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> writes:

> Use unsafe_copy_siginfo_to_user() in order to do the copy
> within the user access block.
>
> On an mpc 8321 (book3s/32) the improvment is about 5% on a process
> sending a signal to itself.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
> ---
> v3: Don't leave compat aside, use the new unsafe_copy_siginfo_to_user32()
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c | 8 +++-----
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c | 5 +----
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
> index ff101e2b3bab..3a2db8af2d65 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
> @@ -710,9 +710,9 @@ static long restore_tm_user_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, struct mcontext __user *s
>  }
>  #endif
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
> +#ifndef CONFIG_PPC64
>  
> -#define copy_siginfo_to_user	copy_siginfo_to_user32
> +#define unsafe_copy_siginfo_to_user32	unsafe_copy_siginfo_to_user
>  
>  #endif /* CONFIG_PPC64 */

Any particular reason to reverse the sense of this #ifdef?

Otherwise this change looks much cleaner.

Eric


>  
> @@ -779,15 +779,13 @@ int handle_rt_signal32(struct ksignal *ksig, sigset_t *oldset,
>  		asm("dcbst %y0; sync; icbi %y0; sync" :: "Z" (mctx->mc_pad[0]));
>  	}
>  	unsafe_put_sigset_t(&frame->uc.uc_sigmask, oldset, failed);
> +	unsafe_copy_siginfo_to_user32(&frame->info, &ksig->info, failed);
>  
>  	/* create a stack frame for the caller of the handler */
>  	unsafe_put_user(regs->gpr[1], newsp, failed);
>  
>  	user_access_end();
>  
> -	if (copy_siginfo_to_user(&frame->info, &ksig->info))
> -		goto badframe;
> -
>  	regs->link = tramp;
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FPU_REGS
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c
> index d80ff83cacb9..56c0c74aa28c 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c
> @@ -901,15 +901,12 @@ int handle_rt_signal64(struct ksignal *ksig, sigset_t *set,
>  	}
>  
>  	unsafe_copy_to_user(&frame->uc.uc_sigmask, set, sizeof(*set), badframe_block);
> +	unsafe_copy_siginfo_to_user(&frame->info, &ksig->info, badframe_block);
>  	/* Allocate a dummy caller frame for the signal handler. */
>  	unsafe_put_user(regs->gpr[1], newsp, badframe_block);
>  
>  	user_write_access_end();
>  
> -	/* Save the siginfo outside of the unsafe block. */
> -	if (copy_siginfo_to_user(&frame->info, &ksig->info))
> -		goto badframe;
> -
>  	/* Make sure signal handler doesn't get spurious FP exceptions */
>  	tsk->thread.fp_state.fpscr = 0;