From: Samuel Holland
> Sent: 19 September 2020 04:20
>
> On powerpc, access_ok() succeeds for the NULL pointer. This breaks the
> dynamic check in futex_detect_cmpxchg(), which expects -EFAULT. As a
> result, robust futex operations are not functional on powerpc.
access_ok(NULL, sane_count) will succeed on all (maybe most) architectures.
All access_ok() does is check that kernel addresses aren't referenced.
(access_ok(kernel_adress, 0) is also likely to succeed.)
It is the access to user-address 0 that is expected to fault.
If this isn't faulting something else is wrong.
Historically (at least pre-elf, if not before) user programs
were linked to address zero - so the page was mapped.
(Linux may be too new to actually require it.)
Not sure what 'wine' requires for win-32 execuatbles.
ISTR there are also some 'crazy' ARM? cpu that read the interrupt
vectors from address 0 in user-space.
So assuming:
static void __init futex_detect_cmpxchg(void)
{
#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
u32 curval;
/*
* This will fail and we want it. Some arch implementations do
* runtime detection of the futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
* functionality. We want to know that before we call in any
* of the complex code paths. Also we want to prevent
* registration of robust lists in that case. NULL is
* guaranteed to fault and we get -EFAULT on functional
* implementation, the non-functional ones will return
* -ENOSYS.
*/
if (cmpxchg_futex_value_locked(&curval, NULL, 0, 0) == -EFAULT)
futex_cmpxchg_enabled = 1;
#endif
}
will fail -EFAULT because user address 0 is invalid seems hopeful.
David
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