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Commit de5cb0dc authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge branch 'address-masking'

Merge user access fast validation using address masking.

This allows architectures to optionally use a data dependent address
masking model instead of a conditional branch for validating user
accesses.  That avoids the Spectre-v1 speculation barriers.

Right now only x86-64 takes advantage of this, and not all architectures
will be able to do it.  It requires a guard region between the user and
kernel address spaces (so that you can't overflow from one to the
other), and an easy way to generate a guaranteed-to-fault address for
invalid user pointers.

Also note that this currently assumes that there is no difference
between user read and write accesses.  If extended to architectures like
powerpc, we'll also need to separate out the user read-vs-write cases.

* address-masking:
  x86: make the masked_user_access_begin() macro use its argument only once
  x86: do the user address masking outside the user access area
  x86: support user address masking instead of non-speculative conditional
parents af9c191a 533ab223
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