[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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