Re: [PATCH 3/8] powerpc: Mark functions called inside uaccess blocks w/ 'notrace'

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 07:56:16AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:01:54AM -0500, Christopher M. Riedl wrote:
> > Functions called between user_*_access_begin() and user_*_access_end()
> > should be either inlined or marked 'notrace' to prevent leaving
> > userspace access exposed. Mark any such functions relevant to signal
> > handling so that subsequent patches can call them inside uaccess blocks.
> 
> I don't think running this much code with uaccess enabled is a good
> idea.  Please refactor the code to reduce the criticial sections with
> uaccess enabled.
> 
> Btw, does powerpc already have the objtool validation that we don't
> accidentally jump out of unsafe uaccess critical sections?

It does not, there was some effort on that a while ago, but I suspect
they're waiting for the ARM64 effort to land and build on that.