On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 08:19:09PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 09:01:48PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 07:49:41PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > > > spin_lock(&ctx->csa.register_lock); > > > > - ret = __spufs_proxydma_info_read(ctx, buf, len, pos); > > > > + __spufs_proxydma_info_read(ctx, &info); > > > > + ret = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, len, pos, &info, sizeof(info)); > > > > > > IDGI... What's that access_ok() for? If you are using simple_read_from_buffer(), > > > the damn thing goes through copy_to_user(). Why bother with separate access_ok() > > > here? > > > > I have no idea at all, this just refactors the code. > > Wait a bloody minute, it's doing *what* under a spinlock? ... and yes, I realize that it's been broken the same way. It still needs fixing. AFAICS, that got broken in commit bf1ab978be23 "[POWERPC] coredump: Add SPU elf notes to coredump." when spufs_proxydma_info_read() had copy_to_user() (until then done after dropping the spinlock) moved into an area where blocking is very much *not* allowed.
