x86/mm, x86/mce: Fix return type/value for memcpy_mcsafe()

aegl · Ingo Molnar · commit cbf8b5a2b649 · 2016-03-16T09:02:18.000+01:00
Returning a 'bool' was very unpopular. Doubly so because the code was just wrong (returning zero for true, one for false; great for shell programming, not so good for C). Change return type to "int". Keep zero as the success indicator because it matches other similar code and people may be more comfortable writing: if (memcpy_mcsafe(to, from, count)) { printk("Sad panda, copy failed\n"); ... } Make the failure return value -EFAULT for now. Reported by: Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@nextfour.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: mika.penttila@nextfour.com Fixes: 92b0729 ("x86/mm, x86/mce: Add memcpy_mcsafe()") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/695f14233fa7a54fcac4406c706d7fec228e3f4c.1457993040.git.tony.luck@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h
@@ -87,9 +87,9 @@ int strcmp(const char *cs, const char *ct);
  *
  * Low level memory copy function that catches machine checks
  *
- * Return true for success, false for fail
+ * Return 0 for success, -EFAULT for fail
  */
-bool memcpy_mcsafe(void *dst, const void *src, size_t cnt);
+int memcpy_mcsafe(void *dst, const void *src, size_t cnt);
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S b/arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 /* Copyright 2002 Andi Kleen */
 
 #include <linux/linkage.h>
+#include <asm/errno.h>
 #include <asm/cpufeatures.h>
 #include <asm/alternative-asm.h>
 
@@ -268,16 +269,16 @@ ENTRY(memcpy_mcsafe)
 	decl %ecx
 	jnz .L_copy_trailing_bytes
 
-	/* Copy successful. Return true */
+	/* Copy successful. Return zero */
 .L_done_memcpy_trap:
 	xorq %rax, %rax
 	ret
 ENDPROC(memcpy_mcsafe)
 
 	.section .fixup, "ax"
-	/* Return false for any failure */
+	/* Return -EFAULT for any failure */
 .L_memcpy_mcsafe_fail:
-	mov	$1, %rax
+	mov	$-EFAULT, %rax
 	ret
 
 	.previous

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -87,9 +87,9 @@ int strcmp(const char cs, const char ct);`
`87`	`87`	`*`
`88`	`88`	`* Low level memory copy function that catches machine checks`
`89`	`89`	`*`
`90`		`- * Return true for success, false for fail`
	`90`	`+ * Return 0 for success, -EFAULT for fail`
`91`	`91`	`*/`
`92`		`-bool memcpy_mcsafe(void dst, const void src, size_t cnt);`
	`92`	`+int memcpy_mcsafe(void dst, const void src, size_t cnt);`
`93`	`93`
`94`	`94`	`#endif /* __KERNEL__ */`
`95`	`95`