[PATCH] Revert "powerpc: Add barrier_nospec to raw_copy_in_user()"

Michal Suchanek msuchanek at suse.de
Mon Sep 2 18:47:26 AEST 2019


This reverts commit 6fbcdd59094ade30db63f32316e9502425d7b256.

Not needed. Data handled by raw_copy_in_user must be loaded through
copy_from_user to be used in the kernel which already has the barrier.

Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek at suse.de>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h
index 8b03eb44e876..76f34346b642 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -312,7 +312,6 @@ raw_copy_in_user(void __user *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
 {
 	unsigned long ret;
 
-	barrier_nospec();
 	allow_user_access(to, from, n);
 	ret = __copy_tofrom_user(to, from, n);
 	prevent_user_access(to, from, n);
-- 
2.22.0



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