This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: use indirect calls helpers at the socket layer
to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-use-indirect-calls-helpers-at-the-socket-layer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 886bcd09646b3b3d1e7633dfaf3b555b47103ac2
Author: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri May 3 17:01:39 2019 +0200
net: use indirect calls helpers at the socket layer
[ Upstream commit 8c3c447b3cec27cf6f77080f4d157d53b64e9555 ]
This avoids an indirect call per {send,recv}msg syscall in
the common (IPv6 or IPv4 socket) case.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Stable-dep-of: 86a7e0b69bd5 ("net: prevent rewrite of msg_name in sock_sendmsg()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index db9d908198f21..dc4d4ecd6cea2 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/xattr.h>
#include <linux/nospec.h>
+#include <linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>
@@ -108,6 +109,13 @@
#include <net/busy_poll.h>
#include <linux/errqueue.h>
+/* proto_ops for ipv4 and ipv6 use the same {recv,send}msg function */
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_INET)
+#define INDIRECT_CALL_INET4(f, f1, ...) INDIRECT_CALL_1(f, f1, __VA_ARGS__)
+#else
+#define INDIRECT_CALL_INET4(f, f1, ...) f(__VA_ARGS__)
+#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL
unsigned int sysctl_net_busy_read __read_mostly;
unsigned int sysctl_net_busy_poll __read_mostly;
@@ -645,10 +653,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__sock_tx_timestamp);
* Sends @msg through @sock, passing through LSM.
* Returns the number of bytes sent, or an error code.
*/
-
+INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE(int inet_sendmsg(struct socket *, struct msghdr *,
+ size_t));
static inline int sock_sendmsg_nosec(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg)
{
- int ret = sock->ops->sendmsg(sock, msg, msg_data_left(msg));
+ int ret = INDIRECT_CALL_INET4(sock->ops->sendmsg, inet_sendmsg, sock,
+ msg, msg_data_left(msg));
BUG_ON(ret == -EIOCBQUEUED);
return ret;
}
@@ -852,11 +862,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__sock_recv_ts_and_drops);
* Receives @msg from @sock, passing through LSM. Returns the total number
* of bytes received, or an error.
*/
-
+INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE(int inet_recvmsg(struct socket *, struct msghdr *,
+ size_t , int ));
static inline int sock_recvmsg_nosec(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg,
int flags)
{
- return sock->ops->recvmsg(sock, msg, msg_data_left(msg), flags);
+ return INDIRECT_CALL_INET4(sock->ops->recvmsg, inet_recvmsg, sock, msg,
+ msg_data_left(msg), flags);
}
int sock_recvmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, int flags)
