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iov_iter: Convert copy_from_user_iter() to masked user access 

copy_from_user_iter() lacks a speculation barrier, which will degrade
performance on some architecture like x86, which would be unfortunate as
copy_from_user_iter() is a critical hotpath function.

Convert copy_from_user_iter() to using masked user access on architecture
that support it. This allows to add the speculation barrier without
impacting performance.

This is similar to what was done for copy_from_user() in commit
0fc810ae3a ("x86/uaccess: Avoid barrier_nospec() in 64-bit
copy_from_user()")

[ tglx: Massage change log ]

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/58e4b07d469ca68a2b9477fe2c1ccc8a44cef131.1763396724.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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Christophe Leroy 2025-11-17 17:43:41 +01:00 committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent 3ce17e6909
commit 4db1df7a72
1 changed files with 10 additions and 6 deletions
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@ -49,12 +49,16 @@ size_t copy_from_user_iter(void __user *iter_from, size_t progress,
if (should_fail_usercopy())
return len;
if (access_ok(iter_from, len)) {
if (can_do_masked_user_access())
iter_from = mask_user_address(iter_from);
else if (!access_ok(iter_from, len))
return res;
to += progress;
instrument_copy_from_user_before(to, iter_from, len);
res = raw_copy_from_user(to, iter_from, len);
instrument_copy_from_user_after(to, iter_from, len, res);
}
return res;
}