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fs/proc/kcore: avoid bounce buffer for ktext data
authorLorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Wed, 22 Mar 2023 18:57:01 +0000 (18:57 +0000)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 28 Mar 2023 23:25:13 +0000 (16:25 -0700)
commitd158f688a0252db07e90f4ede7d7b49bd49fdcb0
tree28dd93641251090e52a396aefbe49f5f126b16bd
parent18e58f8e585ca70220b292b99d82f5e7679b8092
fs/proc/kcore: avoid bounce buffer for ktext data

Patch series "convert read_kcore(), vread() to use iterators", v8.

While reviewing Baoquan's recent changes to permit vread() access to
vm_map_ram regions of vmalloc allocations, Willy pointed out [1] that it
would be nice to refactor vread() as a whole, since its only user is
read_kcore() and the existing form of vread() necessitates the use of a
bounce buffer.

This patch series does exactly that, as well as adjusting how we read the
kernel text section to avoid the use of a bounce buffer in this case as
well.

This has been tested against the test case which motivated Baoquan's
changes in the first place [2] which continues to function correctly, as
do the vmalloc self tests.

This patch (of 4):

Commit df04abfd181a ("fs/proc/kcore.c: Add bounce buffer for ktext data")
introduced the use of a bounce buffer to retrieve kernel text data for
/proc/kcore in order to avoid failures arising from hardened user copies
enabled by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY in check_kernel_text_object().

We can avoid doing this if instead of copy_to_user() we use
_copy_to_user() which bypasses the hardening check.  This is more
efficient than using a bounce buffer and simplifies the code.

We do so as part an overall effort to eliminate bounce buffer usage in the
function with an eye to converting it an iterator read.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1679566220.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y8WfDSRkc%2FOHP3oD@casper.infradead.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87ilk6gos2.fsf@oracle.com/T/#u
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/fd39b0bfa7edc76d360def7d034baaee71d90158.1679511146.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
fs/proc/kcore.c