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From: Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
To: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
	Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Pranjal Shrivastava <praan@google.com>,
	Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@intel.com>,
	Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, iommu@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/4] iommu: Avoid copying the user array twice in the full-array copy helper
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:21:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <414a7d18-037b-4361-8b43-84e618f256f1@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6c9eca4ff584cb977661e97799ac6fe934e7f51c.1780521606.git.nicolinc@nvidia.com>

On 6/4/26 05:26, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> iommu_copy_struct_from_full_user_array() copies a whole user array into a
> kernel buffer. In the common case, where user entry_len equals destination
> entry size, it takes a fast path and copies the whole array with a single
> copy_from_user().
> 
> That fast path does not return, so it falls through into the item-by-item
> copy_struct_from_user() loop and copies every entry a second time. For an
> equal entry_len that loop is just a copy_from_user() of the same bytes, so
> the whole array is copied twice for no benefit.
> 
> Return right after the bulk copy. The per-item loop then runs only on the
> slow path, where entry_len differs and each entry needs size adaption.
> 
> Fixes: 4f2e59ccb698 ("iommu: Add iommu_copy_struct_from_full_user_array helper")
> Assisted-by:Claude:claude-opus-4-8
> Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen<nicolinc@nvidia.com>
> ---
>   include/linux/iommu.h | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Reviewed-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>


  reply	other threads:[~2026-06-10  3:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-03 21:26 [PATCH v1 0/4] iommufd: Cache invalidation hardening and SMMUv3 batching rework Nicolin Chen
2026-06-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v1 1/4] iommufd: Set upper bounds on cache invalidation entry_num and entry_len Nicolin Chen
2026-06-10  3:16   ` Baolu Lu
2026-06-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v1 2/4] iommufd/selftest: Add invalidation entry_num and entry_len boundary tests Nicolin Chen
2026-06-10  3:18   ` Baolu Lu
2026-06-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] iommu: Avoid copying the user array twice in the full-array copy helper Nicolin Chen
2026-06-10  3:21   ` Baolu Lu [this message]
2026-06-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v1 4/4] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Process vIOMMU invalidations in batches Nicolin Chen

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