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It turns out that there are more cases than CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC that
can have holes in the kernel address space: it seems to happen easily
with Xen, and it looks like the AMD gart64 code will also punch holes
dynamically.

Actually hitting that case is still very unlikely, so just do the
access, and take an exception and fix it up for the very unlikely case
of it being a page-crosser with no next page.

And hey, this abstraction might even help other architectures that have
other issues with unaligned word accesses than the possible missing next
page.  IOW, this could do the byte order magic too.

Peter Anvin fixed a thinko in the shifting for the exception case.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jana Saout <[email protected]>
Cc:  Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion arch/x86/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ config X86
select CLKEVT_I8253
select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
select GENERIC_IOMAP
select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS if !DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS

config INSTRUCTION_DECODER
def_bool (KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS)
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33 changes: 33 additions & 0 deletions arch/x86/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h
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Expand Up @@ -43,4 +43,37 @@ static inline unsigned long has_zero(unsigned long a)
return ((a - REPEAT_BYTE(0x01)) & ~a) & REPEAT_BYTE(0x80);
}

/*
* Load an unaligned word from kernel space.
*
* In the (very unlikely) case of the word being a page-crosser
* and the next page not being mapped, take the exception and
* return zeroes in the non-existing part.
*/
static inline unsigned long load_unaligned_zeropad(const void *addr)
{
unsigned long ret, dummy;

asm(
"1:\tmov %2,%0\n"
"2:\n"
".section .fixup,\"ax\"\n"
"3:\t"
"lea %2,%1\n\t"
"and %3,%1\n\t"
"mov (%1),%0\n\t"
"leal %2,%%ecx\n\t"
"andl %4,%%ecx\n\t"
"shll $3,%%ecx\n\t"
"shr %%cl,%0\n\t"
"jmp 2b\n"
".previous\n"
_ASM_EXTABLE(1b, 3b)
:"=&r" (ret),"=&c" (dummy)
:"m" (*(unsigned long *)addr),
"i" (-sizeof(unsigned long)),
"i" (sizeof(unsigned long)-1));
return ret;
}

#endif /* _ASM_WORD_AT_A_TIME_H */
26 changes: 22 additions & 4 deletions fs/dcache.c
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Expand Up @@ -141,18 +141,29 @@ int proc_nr_dentry(ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer,
* Compare 2 name strings, return 0 if they match, otherwise non-zero.
* The strings are both count bytes long, and count is non-zero.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS

#include <asm/word-at-a-time.h>
/*
* NOTE! 'cs' and 'scount' come from a dentry, so it has a
* aligned allocation for this particular component. We don't
* strictly need the load_unaligned_zeropad() safety, but it
* doesn't hurt either.
*
* In contrast, 'ct' and 'tcount' can be from a pathname, and do
* need the careful unaligned handling.
*/
static inline int dentry_cmp(const unsigned char *cs, size_t scount,
const unsigned char *ct, size_t tcount)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS
unsigned long a,b,mask;

if (unlikely(scount != tcount))
return 1;

for (;;) {
a = *(unsigned long *)cs;
b = *(unsigned long *)ct;
a = load_unaligned_zeropad(cs);
b = load_unaligned_zeropad(ct);
if (tcount < sizeof(unsigned long))
break;
if (unlikely(a != b))
Expand All @@ -165,7 +176,13 @@ static inline int dentry_cmp(const unsigned char *cs, size_t scount,
}
mask = ~(~0ul << tcount*8);
return unlikely(!!((a ^ b) & mask));
}

#else

static inline int dentry_cmp(const unsigned char *cs, size_t scount,
const unsigned char *ct, size_t tcount)
{
if (scount != tcount)
return 1;

Expand All @@ -177,9 +194,10 @@ static inline int dentry_cmp(const unsigned char *cs, size_t scount,
tcount--;
} while (tcount);
return 0;
#endif
}

#endif

static void __d_free(struct rcu_head *head)
{
struct dentry *dentry = container_of(head, struct dentry, d_u.d_rcu);
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions fs/namei.c
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Expand Up @@ -1429,7 +1429,7 @@ unsigned int full_name_hash(const unsigned char *name, unsigned int len)
unsigned long hash = 0;

for (;;) {
a = *(unsigned long *)name;
a = load_unaligned_zeropad(name);
if (len < sizeof(unsigned long))
break;
hash += a;
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do {
hash = (hash + a) * 9;
len += sizeof(unsigned long);
a = *(unsigned long *)(name+len);
a = load_unaligned_zeropad(name+len);
/* Do we have any NUL or '/' bytes in this word? */
mask = has_zero(a) | has_zero(a ^ REPEAT_BYTE('/'));
} while (!mask);
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