powerpc: Use barrier_nospec in copy_from_user()
authorMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Tue, 24 Apr 2018 04:15:58 +0000 (14:15 +1000)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Sun, 3 Jun 2018 10:43:45 +0000 (20:43 +1000)
commitddf35cf3764b5a182b178105f57515b42e2634f8
treeedebc20a9689231fd62d857d9a9e51f9bf3850c3
parentcb3d6759a93c6d0aea1c10deb6d00e111c29c19c
powerpc: Use barrier_nospec in copy_from_user()

Based on the x86 commit doing the same.

See commit 304ec1b05031 ("x86/uaccess: Use __uaccess_begin_nospec()
and uaccess_try_nospec") and b3bbfb3fb5d2 ("x86: Introduce
__uaccess_begin_nospec() and uaccess_try_nospec") for more detail.

In all cases we are ordering the load from the potentially
user-controlled pointer vs a previous branch based on an access_ok()
check or similar.

Base on a patch from Michal Suchanek.

Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h