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riscv: uaccess: Return the number of bytes effectively not copied
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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 correct number of bytes not written when an exception happens
and is fixed up, instead it always returns the initial size to copy,
even if some bytes were actually copied.

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 not written in
__asm_copy_[to|from]_user() and __clear_user(), as it is expected.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230309151841.bomov6hq3ybyp42a@debian/ [1]
Fixes: ebcbd75 ("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>
Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
Tested-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Reviewed-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230811150604.1621784-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Alexandre Ghiti authored and gregkh committed Aug 23, 2023
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11 changes: 7 additions & 4 deletions arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S
Expand Up @@ -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:
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -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)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -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)

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