Commit 84c05e63 authored by Christophe Leroy's avatar Christophe Leroy Committed by Yang Yingliang
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powerpc: Implement user_access_begin and friends



stable inclusion
from linux-4.19.159
commit 8145b3a014e8504f02e15a38f04051fec826f4f2
CVE: CVE-2020-4788

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commit 5cd62333 upstream.

Today, when a function like strncpy_from_user() is called,
the userspace access protection is de-activated and re-activated
for every word read.

By implementing user_access_begin and friends, the protection
is de-activated at the beginning of the copy and re-activated at the
end.

Implement user_access_begin(), user_access_end() and
unsafe_get_user(), unsafe_put_user() and unsafe_copy_to_user()

For the time being, we keep user_access_save() and
user_access_restore() as nops.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChristophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/36d4fbf9e56a75994aca4ee2214c77b26a5a8d35.1579866752.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr


Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
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