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Commit 11e63f6d authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams
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x86, pmem: fix broken __copy_user_nocache cache-bypass assumptions



Before we rework the "pmem api" to stop abusing __copy_user_nocache()
for memcpy_to_pmem() we need to fix cases where we may strand dirty data
in the cpu cache. The problem occurs when copy_from_iter_pmem() is used
for arbitrary data transfers from userspace. There is no guarantee that
these transfers, performed by dax_iomap_actor(), will have aligned
destinations or aligned transfer lengths. Backstop the usage
__copy_user_nocache() with explicit cache management in these unaligned
cases.

Yes, copy_from_iter_pmem() is now too big for an inline, but addressing
that is saved for a later patch that moves the entirety of the "pmem
api" into the pmem driver directly.

Fixes: 5de490da ("pmem: add copy_from_iter_pmem() and clear_pmem()")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRoss Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarToshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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