Re: [PATCH -fixes] riscv: uaccess: Return the number of bytes effectively copied

[Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>]

On 11/08/2023 13:03, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> It was reported that the riscv kernel hangs while executing the test
> in [1].
>
> Indeed, the test hangs when trying to write a buffer to a file. The
> problem is that the riscv implementation of raw_copy_from_user() does not
> return the number of bytes written when an exception happens and is fixed
> up.


I'll respin another version as the changelog and the title are 
incorrect: the uaccess routines should not return the number of bytes 
copied but actually the number of bytes not copied (this is what this 
patch implements).

I'll wait for feedbacks before doing so!

Sorry about that!

Alex


>
> generic_perform_write() pre-faults the user pages and bails out if nothing
> can be written, otherwise it will access the userspace buffer: here the
> riscv implementation keeps returning it was not able to copy any byte
> though the pre-faulting indicates otherwise. So generic_perform_write()
> keeps retrying to access the user memory and ends up in an infinite
> loop.
>
> Note that before the commit mentioned in [1] that introduced this
> regression, it worked because generic_perform_write() would bail out if
> only one byte could not be written.
>
> So fix this by returning the number of bytes effectively written in
> __asm_copy_[to|from]_user() and __clear_user(), as it is expected.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230309151841.bomov6hq3ybyp42a@debian/
>
> Fixes: ebcbd75e3962 ("riscv: Fix the bug in memory access fixup code")
> Reported-by: Bo YU <tsu.yubo@gmail.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230309151841.bomov6hq3ybyp42a@debian/#t
> Reported-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/ZNOnCakhwIeue3yr@aurel32.net/
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
> ---
>   arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S | 11 +++++++----
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S b/arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S
> index ec486e5369d9..09b47ebacf2e 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S
> +++ b/arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S
> @@ -17,8 +17,11 @@ ENTRY(__asm_copy_from_user)
>   	li t6, SR_SUM
>   	csrs CSR_STATUS, t6
>   
> -	/* Save for return value */
> -	mv	t5, a2
> +	/*
> +	 * Save the terminal address which will be used to compute the number
> +	 * of bytes copied in case of a fixup exception.
> +	 */
> +	add	t5, a0, a2
>   
>   	/*
>   	 * Register allocation for code below:
> @@ -176,7 +179,7 @@ ENTRY(__asm_copy_from_user)
>   10:
>   	/* Disable access to user memory */
>   	csrc CSR_STATUS, t6
> -	mv a0, t5
> +	sub a0, t5, a0
>   	ret
>   ENDPROC(__asm_copy_to_user)
>   ENDPROC(__asm_copy_from_user)
> @@ -228,7 +231,7 @@ ENTRY(__clear_user)
>   11:
>   	/* Disable access to user memory */
>   	csrc CSR_STATUS, t6
> -	mv a0, a1
> +	sub a0, a3, a0
>   	ret
>   ENDPROC(__clear_user)
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL(__clear_user)