[PATCH 8/8] arm64: Rewrite __arch_clear_user()

Robin Murphy robin.murphy at arm.com
Tue May 11 09:12:38 PDT 2021


Now that we're always using STTR variants rather than abstracting two
different addressing modes, the user_ldst macro here is frankly more
obfuscating than helpful. Rewrite __arch_clear_user() with regular
USER() annotations so that it's clearer what's going on, and take the
opportunity to minimise the branchiness in the most common paths, which
also allows the exception fixup to return a more accurate result.

Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/lib/clear_user.S | 42 +++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/clear_user.S b/arch/arm64/lib/clear_user.S
index af9afcbec92c..1005345b4066 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/lib/clear_user.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/lib/clear_user.S
@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
 /*
- * Based on arch/arm/lib/clear_user.S
- *
- * Copyright (C) 2012 ARM Ltd.
+ * Copyright (C) 2021 Arm Ltd.
  */
-#include <linux/linkage.h>
 
-#include <asm/asm-uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/linkage.h>
 #include <asm/assembler.h>
 
 	.text
@@ -19,25 +16,30 @@
  *
  * Alignment fixed up by hardware.
  */
+	.p2align 4
 SYM_FUNC_START(__arch_clear_user)
-	mov	x2, x1			// save the size for fixup return
+	add	x2, x0, x1
 	subs	x1, x1, #8
 	b.mi	2f
 1:
-user_ldst 9f, sttr, xzr, x0, 8
+USER(9f, sttr	xzr, [x0])
+	add	x0, x0, #8
 	subs	x1, x1, #8
-	b.pl	1b
-2:	adds	x1, x1, #4
-	b.mi	3f
-user_ldst 9f, sttr, wzr, x0, 4
-	sub	x1, x1, #4
-3:	adds	x1, x1, #2
-	b.mi	4f
-user_ldst 9f, sttrh, wzr, x0, 2
-	sub	x1, x1, #2
-4:	adds	x1, x1, #1
-	b.mi	5f
-user_ldst 9f, sttrb, wzr, x0, 0
+	b.hi	1b
+USER(9f, sttr	xzr, [x2, #-8])
+	mov	x0, #0
+	ret
+
+2:	tbz	x1, #2, 3f
+USER(9f, sttr	wzr, [x0])
+USER(9f, sttr	wzr, [x2, #-4])
+	mov	x0, #0
+	ret
+
+3:	tbz	x1, #1, 4f
+USER(9f, sttrh	wzr, [x0])
+4:	tbz	x1, #0, 5f
+USER(9f, sttrb	wzr, [x2, #-1])
 5:	mov	x0, #0
 	ret
 SYM_FUNC_END(__arch_clear_user)
@@ -45,6 +47,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__arch_clear_user)
 
 	.section .fixup,"ax"
 	.align	2
-9:	mov	x0, x2			// return the original size
+9:	sub	x0, x2, x0
 	ret
 	.previous
-- 
2.21.0.dirty




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