Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 16/20] signal/x86: Pass pkey not vma into __bad_area

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Sep 18 2018 - 16:48:20 EST


On Tue, 18 Sep 2018, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> There is only one caller of __bad_area that passes in PKUERR and thus
> will generate a siginfo with si_pkey set. Therefore simplify the
> logic and hoist reading of vma_pkey up into that caller, and just
> pass *pkey into __bad_area.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 18 +++++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> index f82106578364..11a93f14a674 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> @@ -904,22 +904,16 @@ bad_area_nosemaphore(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
>
> static void
> __bad_area(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
> - unsigned long address, struct vm_area_struct *vma, int si_code)
> + unsigned long address, u32 *pkey, int si_code)
> {
> struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
> - u32 pkey;
> -
> - if (vma)
> - pkey = vma_pkey(vma);
> -
> /*
> * Something tried to access memory that isn't in our memory map..
> * Fix it, but check if it's kernel or user first..
> */
> up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
>
> - __bad_area_nosemaphore(regs, error_code, address,
> - (vma) ? &pkey : NULL, si_code);
> + __bad_area_nosemaphore(regs, error_code, address, pkey, si_code);
> }
>
> static noinline void
> @@ -954,10 +948,12 @@ bad_area_access_error(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
> * But, doing it this way allows compiler optimizations
> * if pkeys are compiled out.
> */
> - if (bad_area_access_from_pkeys(error_code, vma))
> - __bad_area(regs, error_code, address, vma, SEGV_PKUERR);
> + if (bad_area_access_from_pkeys(error_code, vma)) {
> + u32 pkey = vma_pkey(vma);
> + __bad_area(regs, error_code, address, &pkey, SEGV_PKUERR);
> + }
> else
> - __bad_area(regs, error_code, address, vma, SEGV_ACCERR);
> + __bad_area(regs, error_code, address, NULL, SEGV_ACCERR);

Please make that:

} else {
__bad_area(regs, error_code, address, NULL, SEGV_ACCERR);
}

With that fixed:

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>