Re: [PATCH -fixes] riscv: uaccess: Return the number of bytes effectively copied

[Aurelien Jarno]

Hi Alexandre,

On 2023-08-11 13:03, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> It was reported that the riscv kernel hangs while executing the test
> in [1].
> 
> Indeed, the test hangs when trying to write a buffer to a file. The
> problem is that the riscv implementation of raw_copy_from_user() does not
> return the number of bytes written when an exception happens and is fixed
> up.
> 
> generic_perform_write() pre-faults the user pages and bails out if nothing
> can be written, otherwise it will access the userspace buffer: here the
> riscv implementation keeps returning it was not able to copy any byte
> though the pre-faulting indicates otherwise. So generic_perform_write()
> keeps retrying to access the user memory and ends up in an infinite
> loop.
> 
> Note that before the commit mentioned in [1] that introduced this
> regression, it worked because generic_perform_write() would bail out if
> only one byte could not be written.
> 
> So fix this by returning the number of bytes effectively written in
> __asm_copy_[to|from]_user() and __clear_user(), as it is expected.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230309151841.bomov6hq3ybyp42a@debian/
> 
> Fixes: ebcbd75e3962 ("riscv: Fix the bug in memory access fixup code")
> Reported-by: Bo YU <tsu.yubo@xxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230309151841.bomov6hq3ybyp42a@debian/#t
> Reported-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/ZNOnCakhwIeue3yr@xxxxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S | 11 +++++++----
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Thanks for providing a patch so fast. I confirm that the issue I
reported is fixed, but also that the full strace testsuite now passes
successfully.

The code looks all good to me, so:

Tested-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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