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authorZeng Chi <zengchi@kylinos.cn>2026-09-21 18:24:42 +0800
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2026-09-22 08:36:16 -0700
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KVM: Don't pre-reserve xarray entries when storing empty/NULL attributesgrafted
Skip the xarray reservation loop when clearing all memory attributes, as storing NULL only erases the entry and never needs to allocate, so no reservation (and no cleanup of a failed one) is required in that case. Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Cc: David Ballesteros <davimaba.v@proton.me> Signed-off-by: Zeng Chi <zengchi@kylinos.cn> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260921102442.1232375-1-zeng_chi911@163.com [sean: split to separate patch] Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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+/*
+ * User address space access functions.
+ *
+ * For licencing details see kernel-base/COPYING
+ */
+
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/export.h>
+#include <linux/instrumented.h>
+
+#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
+
+/**
+ * copy_from_user_nmi - NMI safe copy from user
+ * @to: Pointer to the destination buffer
+ * @from: Pointer to a user space address of the current task
+ * @n: Number of bytes to copy
+ *
+ * Returns: The number of not copied bytes. 0 is success, i.e. all bytes copied
+ *
+ * Contrary to other copy_from_user() variants this function can be called
+ * from NMI context. Despite the name it is not restricted to be called
+ * from NMI context. It is safe to be called from any other context as
+ * well. It disables pagefaults across the copy which means a fault will
+ * abort the copy.
+ *
+ * For NMI context invocations this relies on the nested NMI work to allow
+ * atomic faults from the NMI path; the nested NMI paths are careful to
+ * preserve CR2.
+ */
+unsigned long
+copy_from_user_nmi(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
+{
+ unsigned long ret;
+
+ if (!__access_ok(from, n))
+ return n;
+
+ if (!nmi_uaccess_okay())
+ return n;
+
+ /*
+ * Even though this function is typically called from NMI/IRQ context
+ * disable pagefaults so that its behaviour is consistent even when
+ * called from other contexts.
+ */
+ pagefault_disable();
+ instrument_copy_from_user_before(to, from, n);
+ ret = raw_copy_from_user(to, from, n);
+ instrument_copy_from_user_after(to, from, n, ret);
+ pagefault_enable();
+
+ return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(copy_from_user_nmi);