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Fri, 22 Aug 2025 07:12:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.100.6] ([149.3.87.76]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-3c6c737b303sm576035f8f.47.2025.08.22.07.11.58 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 22 Aug 2025 07:12:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <98191ca5-9581-44fd-b9b1-6f0b932f141e@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:11:58 +0400 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, andrealmeid@igalia.com, brauner@kernel.org, christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu, daniel@iogearbox.net, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, dave@stgolabs.net, david.laight.linux@gmail.com, dvhart@infradead.org, jack@suse.cz, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, maddy@linux.ibm.com, mingo@redhat.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au, npiggin@gmail.com, peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk References: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/10] uaccess: Add speculation barrier to copy_from_user_iter() Content-Language: en-US From: Giorgi Tchankvetadze In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit so we can use speculation barrier? and fix the problem locally On 8/22/2025 5:52 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 at 05:58, Christophe Leroy > wrote: >> > The results of "access_ok()" can be mis-speculated. The result is > that > you can end speculatively: > > if (access_ok(from, size)) > // > Right here > I actually think that we should probably just make access_ok() itself do this. > > We don't have *that* many users since we have been de-emphasizing the > "check ahead of time" model, and any that are performance-critical can > these days be turned into masked addresses. > > As it is, now we're in the situation that careful places - like > _inline_copy_from_user(), and with your patch copy_from_user_iter() - > do maybe wethis by hand and are ugly as a result, and lazy and > probably incorrect places don't do it at all. > > That said, I don't object to this patch and maybe we should do that > access_ok() change later and independently of any powerpc work. > > Linus >