[RFC PATCH 07/14] arm/crash_dump: Use the new interface copy_oldmem_page_buf

Amit Daniel Kachhap amit.kachhap at arm.com
Fri Dec 3 02:42:24 PST 2021


The current interface copy_oldmem_page() passes user pointer without
__user annotation and hence does unnecessary user/kernel pointer
conversions during its implementation.

Implement the interface copy_oldmem_page_buf() to avoid this issue.

Cc: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/crash_dump.c | 21 ++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/crash_dump.c b/arch/arm/kernel/crash_dump.c
index 53cb92435392..bb0395ab9f98 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/crash_dump.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/crash_dump.c
@@ -16,20 +16,19 @@
 #include <linux/io.h>
 
 /**
- * copy_oldmem_page() - copy one page from old kernel memory
+ * copy_oldmem_page_buf() - copy one page from old kernel memory
  * @pfn: page frame number to be copied
- * @buf: buffer where the copied page is placed
+ * @ubuf: user buffer where the copied page is placed
+ * @kbuf: kernel buffer where the copied page is placed
  * @csize: number of bytes to copy
  * @offset: offset in bytes into the page
- * @userbuf: if set, @buf is int he user address space
  *
  * This function copies one page from old kernel memory into buffer pointed by
- * @buf. If @buf is in userspace, set @userbuf to %1. Returns number of bytes
- * copied or negative error in case of failure.
+ * either @ubuf or @kbuf. Returns number of bytes copied or negative error in
+ * case of failure.
  */
-ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long pfn, char *buf,
-			 size_t csize, unsigned long offset,
-			 int userbuf)
+ssize_t copy_oldmem_page_buf(unsigned long pfn, char __user *ubuf, char *kbuf,
+			     size_t csize, unsigned long offset)
 {
 	void *vaddr;
 
@@ -40,13 +39,13 @@ ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long pfn, char *buf,
 	if (!vaddr)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	if (userbuf) {
-		if (copy_to_user(buf, vaddr + offset, csize)) {
+	if (ubuf) {
+		if (copy_to_user(ubuf, vaddr + offset, csize)) {
 			iounmap(vaddr);
 			return -EFAULT;
 		}
 	} else {
-		memcpy(buf, vaddr + offset, csize);
+		memcpy(kbuf, vaddr + offset, csize);
 	}
 
 	iounmap(vaddr);
-- 
2.17.1




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