Re: [PATCH] ARM: add get_user() support for 8 byte types

Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-11-13T11:24:52Z

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:11:09AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 November 2012, Rob Clark wrote:
> > right, that is what I was worried about.. but what about something
> > along the lines of:
> >
> > case 8: { \
> > if (sizeof(x) < 8) \
> > __get_user_x(__r2, __p, __e, __l, 4); \
> > else \
> > __get_user_x(__r2, __p, __e, __l, 8); \
> > break; \
> > } \
>
> I guess that's still broken if x is 8 or 16 bits wide.

Actually, it isn't - because if x is 8 or 16 bits wide, and we load
a 32-bit quantity, all that follows is a narrowing cast which is exactly
what happens today. We don't have a problem with register allocation
like we have in the 32-bit x vs 64-bit pointer target type, which is what
the above code works around.

> > maybe we need a special variant of __get_user_8() instead to get the
> > right 32bits on big vs little endian systems, but I think something
> > roughly along these lines could work.
> >
> > Or maybe in sizeof(x)<8 case, we just __get_user_bad().. I'm not 100%
> > sure on whether this is supposed to be treated as an error case at
> > compile time or not.
>
> We know that nobody is using that at the moment, so we could define
> it to be a compile-time error.
>
> But I still think this is a pointless exercise, a number of people have
> concluded independently that it's not worth trying to come up with a
> solution, whether one exists or not. Why can't you just use copy_from_user()
> anyway?

You're missing something; that is one of the greatest powers of open
source. The many eyes (and minds) effect. Someone out there probably
has a solution to whatever problem, the trick is to find that person. :)

I think we have a working solution for this for ARM. It won't be suitable
for every arch, where they have 8-bit and 16-bit registers able to be
allocated by the compiler, but for architectures where the minimum register
size is 32-bit, what we have below should work.

In other words, I don't think this will work for x86-32 where ax, al, ah
as well as eax are still available.

What I have currently in my test file, which appears to work correctly,
is (bear in mind this is based upon an older version of get_user() which
pre-dates Will's cleanups):

#define __get_user_x(__r2,__p,__e,__s,__i...) \
__asm__ __volatile__ ( \
"bl __get_user_" #__s \
: "=&r" (__e), "=r" (__r2) \
: "0" (__p) \
: __i, "cc")

#ifdef BIG_ENDIAN
#define __get_user_xb(__r2,__p,__e,__s,__i...) \
__get_user_x(__r2,(uintptr_t)__p + 4,__s,__i)
#else
#define __get_user_xb __get_user_x
#endif

#define get_user(x,p) \
({ \
register const typeof(*(p)) __user *__p asm("r0") = (p);\
register int __e asm("r0"); \
register typeof(x) __r2 asm("r2"); \
switch (sizeof(*(__p))) { \
case 1: \
__get_user_x(__r2, __p, __e, 1, "lr"); \
break; \
case 2: \
__get_user_x(__r2, __p, __e, 2, "r3", "lr"); \
break; \
case 4: \
__get_user_x(__r2, __p, __e, 4, "lr"); \
break; \
case 8: \
if (sizeof((x)) < 8) \
__get_user_xb(__r2, __p, __e, 4, "lr"); \
else \
__get_user_x(__r2, __p, __e, 8, "lr"); \
break; \
default: __e = __get_user_bad(); break; \
} \
x = (typeof(*(__p))) __r2; \
__e; \
})

Tested with 8, 16, 32, 64 ints, 32bit int with const p, pointers, const
pointers, pointer to 64bit with 32bit target, pointer-to-const-pointer
to non-const pointer (which should and does warn).