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powerpc: Use barrier_nospec in copy_from_user()
authorMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:46:02 +0000 (21:46 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 06:36:40 +0000 (08:36 +0200)
commit86341b2fea2cae64807135859fa499537d5ddede
tree5fcd43b947f464455e97591cffae5fe82f5a1d1d
parente1217b4a5acec3da22eee7088b2649bc827eb14e
powerpc: Use barrier_nospec in copy_from_user()

commit ddf35cf3764b5a182b178105f57515b42e2634f8 upstream.

Based on the x86 commit doing the same.

See commit 304ec1b05031 ("x86/uaccess: Use __uaccess_begin_nospec()
and uaccess_try_nospec") and b3bbfb3fb5d2 ("x86: Introduce
__uaccess_begin_nospec() and uaccess_try_nospec") for more detail.

In all cases we are ordering the load from the potentially
user-controlled pointer vs a previous branch based on an access_ok()
check or similar.

Base on a patch from Michal Suchanek.

Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h