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    ARM: signal: copy registers using __copy_from_user() · c32cd419
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    __get_user_error() is used as a fast accessor to make copying structure
    members in the signal handling path as efficient as possible.  However,
    with software PAN and the recent Spectre variant 1, the efficiency is
    reduced as these are no longer fast accessors.
    
    In the case of software PAN, it has to switch the domain register around
    each access, and with Spectre variant 1, it would have to repeat the
    access_ok() check for each access.
    
    It becomes much more efficient to use __copy_from_user() instead, so
    let's use this for the ARM integer registers.
    
    Acked-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
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