HARDENED_USERCOPY is checked within a function so even if disabled, the function overhead still exists. Move the static check inline.
This is at best a micro-optimisation and any difference in performance was within noise but it is relatively consistent with the init_on_* implementations. Suggested-by: Kees Cook <k...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@techsingularity.net> --- include/linux/thread_info.h | 8 +++++++- mm/usercopy.c | 13 +++++++------ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/thread_info.h b/include/linux/thread_info.h index cf2446c9c30d..09fc241a45f7 100644 --- a/include/linux/thread_info.h +++ b/include/linux/thread_info.h @@ -221,11 +221,17 @@ static inline int arch_within_stack_frames(const void * const stack, extern void __check_object_size(const void *ptr, unsigned long n, bool to_user); +DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_MAYBE(CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_DEFAULT_ON, + validate_usercopy_range); + static __always_inline void check_object_size(const void *ptr, unsigned long n, bool to_user) { - if (!__builtin_constant_p(n)) + if (!__builtin_constant_p(n) && + static_branch_maybe(CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_DEFAULT_ON, + &validate_usercopy_range)) { __check_object_size(ptr, n, to_user); + } } #else static inline void check_object_size(const void *ptr, unsigned long n, diff --git a/mm/usercopy.c b/mm/usercopy.c index 4cf33305347a..a1193bdabb16 100644 --- a/mm/usercopy.c +++ b/mm/usercopy.c @@ -201,7 +201,9 @@ static inline void check_heap_object(const void *ptr, unsigned long n, } } -static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE_RO(bypass_usercopy_checks); +DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_MAYBE_RO(CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_DEFAULT_ON, + validate_usercopy_range); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(validate_usercopy_range); /* * Validates that the given object is: @@ -212,9 +214,6 @@ static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE_RO(bypass_usercopy_checks); */ void __check_object_size(const void *ptr, unsigned long n, bool to_user) { - if (static_branch_unlikely(&bypass_usercopy_checks)) - return; - /* Skip all tests if size is zero. */ if (!n) return; @@ -270,8 +269,10 @@ __setup("hardened_usercopy=", parse_hardened_usercopy); static int __init set_hardened_usercopy(void) { - if (enable_checks == false) - static_branch_enable(&bypass_usercopy_checks); + if (enable_checks) + static_branch_enable(&validate_usercopy_range); + else + static_branch_disable(&validate_usercopy_range); return 1; } -- 2.43.0