Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.
It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access. But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.
A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model. And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.
This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.
There were a couple of notable cases:
- csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.
- the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
really used it)
- microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout
but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.
I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something. Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If the kernel config 'CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP' and the file
'/proc/sys/nds32/unaligned_access/enable' are set, the kernel
unaligned access handler does not handle correctly when the
value of immediate field is negative. This commit fixes the
unaligned access handler in kernel.
Signed-off-by: Nickhu <nickhu@andestech.com>
Reviewed-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
Change the name of the file '/proc/sys/nds32/unaligned_acess'
to '/proc/sys/nds32/unaligned_access'
Signed-off-by: Nickhu <nickhu@andestech.com>
Reviewed-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
This patch includes the exception/interrupt entries, pt_reg structure and
related accessors.
/* Unaligned accessing handling*/
Andes processors cannot load/store information which is not naturally
aligned on the bus, i.e., loading a 4 byte data whose start address must
be divisible by 4. If unaligned data accessing is happened, data
unaligned exception will be triggered and user will get SIGSEGV or
kernel oops according to the unaligned address. In order to make user be
able to load/store data from an unaligned address, software load/store
emulation is implemented in arch/nds32/mm/alignment.c to address data
unaligned exception.
Unaligned accessing handling is disabled by default because it is not a
normal case. User can enable this feature by following steps.
A. Compile time:
1. Enable kernel config CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP
B. Run time:
1. Enter /proc/sys/nds32/unaligned_acess folder
2. Write 1 to file enable_mode to enable unaligned accessing
handling. User can disable it by writing 0 to this file.
3. Write 1 to file debug to show which unaligned address is under
processing. User can disable it by writing 0 to this file.
However, unaligned accessing handler cannot work if this unaligned
address is not accessible such as protection violation. On this
condition, the default behaviors for addressing data unaligned exception
still happen
Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincentc@andestech.com>
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
