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authorSanrio Alvares <salvares@codeaurora.org>2016-02-08 18:42:08 -0800
committerDavid Keitel <dkeitel@codeaurora.org>2016-03-23 21:21:28 -0700
commitae3950d6238c828de10ed8c66e4b9dd9e27ecad0 (patch)
treedcf01b7b588c76a07a3a7c51d4d3c0ac2601a9ae /lib
parent566b301bfe49fbee1c6b56a1bbe4316fd33a6eed (diff)
lib: align source before using optimized implementation
If the source is at the boundary of the VMA, loading one word at a time can cause an alignment fault when the adjacent VMA is IO mapped. Do byte-by-byte copy until source aligns to 8 bytes and then continue with optimized version. CRs-Fixed: 973724 Change-Id: I05e085597c58169fc6e275508a907029b9c7ec64 Signed-off-by: Sanrio Alvares <salvares@codeaurora.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/strncpy_from_user.c17
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/strncpy_from_user.c b/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
index e0af6ff73d14..9d2683b521ae 100644
--- a/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
+++ b/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
(((long) dst | (long) src) & (sizeof(long) - 1))
#endif
+#define CHECK_ALIGN(v, a) ((((unsigned long)(v)) & ((a) - 1)) == 0)
+
/*
* Do a strncpy, return length of string without final '\0'.
* 'count' is the user-supplied count (return 'count' if we
@@ -35,6 +37,21 @@ static inline long do_strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const char __user *src, long
if (IS_UNALIGNED(src, dst))
goto byte_at_a_time;
+ /* Copy a byte at a time until we align to 8 bytes */
+ while (max && (!CHECK_ALIGN(src + res, 8))) {
+ char c;
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = __get_user(c, src + res);
+ if (ret)
+ return -ret;
+ dst[res] = c;
+ if (!c)
+ return res;
+ res++;
+ max--;
+ }
+
while (max >= sizeof(unsigned long)) {
unsigned long c, data;