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<entry>
<title>x86/fpu: Avoid math_state_restore() without used_math() in __restore_xstate_sig()</title>
<updated>2015-03-26T14:01:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-13T08:53:09+00:00</published>
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commit a7c80ebcac3068b1c3cb27d538d29558c30010c8 upstream.

math_state_restore() assumes it is called with irqs disabled,
but this is not true if the caller is __restore_xstate_sig().

This means that if ia32_fxstate == T and __copy_from_user()
fails, __restore_xstate_sig() returns with irqs disabled too.

This triggers:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:41
   dump_stack
   ___might_sleep
   ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   __might_sleep
   down_read
   ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   print_vma_addr
   signal_fault
   sys32_rt_sigreturn

Change __restore_xstate_sig() to call set_used_math()
unconditionally. This avoids enabling and disabling interrupts
in math_state_restore(). If copy_from_user() fails, we can
simply do fpu_finit() by hand.

[ Note: this is only the first step. math_state_restore() should
        not check used_math(), it should set this flag. While
	init_fpu() should simply die. ]

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Riikonen &lt;priikone@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas &lt;quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Suresh Siddha &lt;sbsiddha@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150307153844.GB25954@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a7c80ebcac3068b1c3cb27d538d29558c30010c8 upstream.

math_state_restore() assumes it is called with irqs disabled,
but this is not true if the caller is __restore_xstate_sig().

This means that if ia32_fxstate == T and __copy_from_user()
fails, __restore_xstate_sig() returns with irqs disabled too.

This triggers:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:41
   dump_stack
   ___might_sleep
   ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   __might_sleep
   down_read
   ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   print_vma_addr
   signal_fault
   sys32_rt_sigreturn

Change __restore_xstate_sig() to call set_used_math()
unconditionally. This avoids enabling and disabling interrupts
in math_state_restore(). If copy_from_user() fails, we can
simply do fpu_finit() by hand.

[ Note: this is only the first step. math_state_restore() should
        not check used_math(), it should set this flag. While
	init_fpu() should simply die. ]

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Riikonen &lt;priikone@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas &lt;quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Suresh Siddha &lt;sbsiddha@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150307153844.GB25954@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, fpu: shift drop_init_fpu() from save_xstate_sig() to handle_signal()</title>
<updated>2014-11-14T16:47:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-02T17:57:13+00:00</published>
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commit 66463db4fc5605d51c7bb81d009d5bf30a783a2c upstream.

save_xstate_sig()-&gt;drop_init_fpu() doesn't look right. setup_rt_frame()
can fail after that, in this case the next setup_rt_frame() triggered
by SIGSEGV won't save fpu simply because the old state was lost. This
obviously mean that fpu won't be restored after sys_rt_sigreturn() from
SIGSEGV handler.

Shift drop_init_fpu() into !failed branch in handle_signal().

Test-case (needs -O2):

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;signal.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/syscall.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
	#include &lt;pthread.h&gt;
	#include &lt;assert.h&gt;

	volatile double D;

	void test(double d)
	{
		int pid = getpid();

		for (D = d; D == d; ) {
			/* sys_tkill(pid, SIGHUP); asm to avoid save/reload
			 * fp regs around "C" call */
			asm ("" : : "a"(200), "D"(pid), "S"(1));
			asm ("syscall" : : : "ax");
		}

		printf("ERR!!\n");
	}

	void sigh(int sig)
	{
	}

	char altstack[4096 * 10] __attribute__((aligned(4096)));

	void *tfunc(void *arg)
	{
		for (;;) {
			mprotect(altstack, sizeof(altstack), PROT_READ);
			mprotect(altstack, sizeof(altstack), PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE);
		}
	}

	int main(void)
	{
		stack_t st = {
			.ss_sp = altstack,
			.ss_size = sizeof(altstack),
			.ss_flags = SS_ONSTACK,
		};

		struct sigaction sa = {
			.sa_handler = sigh,
		};

		pthread_t pt;

		sigaction(SIGSEGV, &amp;sa, NULL);
		sigaltstack(&amp;st, NULL);
		sa.sa_flags = SA_ONSTACK;
		sigaction(SIGHUP, &amp;sa, NULL);

		pthread_create(&amp;pt, NULL, tfunc, NULL);

		test(123.456);
		return 0;
	}

Reported-by: Bean Anderson &lt;bean@azulsystems.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140902175713.GA21646@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 66463db4fc5605d51c7bb81d009d5bf30a783a2c upstream.

save_xstate_sig()-&gt;drop_init_fpu() doesn't look right. setup_rt_frame()
can fail after that, in this case the next setup_rt_frame() triggered
by SIGSEGV won't save fpu simply because the old state was lost. This
obviously mean that fpu won't be restored after sys_rt_sigreturn() from
SIGSEGV handler.

Shift drop_init_fpu() into !failed branch in handle_signal().

Test-case (needs -O2):

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;signal.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/syscall.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
	#include &lt;pthread.h&gt;
	#include &lt;assert.h&gt;

	volatile double D;

	void test(double d)
	{
		int pid = getpid();

		for (D = d; D == d; ) {
			/* sys_tkill(pid, SIGHUP); asm to avoid save/reload
			 * fp regs around "C" call */
			asm ("" : : "a"(200), "D"(pid), "S"(1));
			asm ("syscall" : : : "ax");
		}

		printf("ERR!!\n");
	}

	void sigh(int sig)
	{
	}

	char altstack[4096 * 10] __attribute__((aligned(4096)));

	void *tfunc(void *arg)
	{
		for (;;) {
			mprotect(altstack, sizeof(altstack), PROT_READ);
			mprotect(altstack, sizeof(altstack), PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE);
		}
	}

	int main(void)
	{
		stack_t st = {
			.ss_sp = altstack,
			.ss_size = sizeof(altstack),
			.ss_flags = SS_ONSTACK,
		};

		struct sigaction sa = {
			.sa_handler = sigh,
		};

		pthread_t pt;

		sigaction(SIGSEGV, &amp;sa, NULL);
		sigaltstack(&amp;st, NULL);
		sa.sa_flags = SA_ONSTACK;
		sigaction(SIGHUP, &amp;sa, NULL);

		pthread_create(&amp;pt, NULL, tfunc, NULL);

		test(123.456);
		return 0;
	}

Reported-by: Bean Anderson &lt;bean@azulsystems.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140902175713.GA21646@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, fpu: __restore_xstate_sig()-&gt;math_state_restore() needs preempt_disable()</title>
<updated>2014-11-14T16:47:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-02T17:57:17+00:00</published>
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commit df24fb859a4e200d9324e2974229fbb7adf00aef upstream.

Add preempt_disable() + preempt_enable() around math_state_restore() in
__restore_xstate_sig(). Otherwise __switch_to() after __thread_fpu_begin()
can overwrite fpu-&gt;state we are going to restore.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140902175717.GA21649@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;sbsiddha@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit df24fb859a4e200d9324e2974229fbb7adf00aef upstream.

Add preempt_disable() + preempt_enable() around math_state_restore() in
__restore_xstate_sig(). Otherwise __switch_to() after __thread_fpu_begin()
can overwrite fpu-&gt;state we are going to restore.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140902175717.GA21649@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;sbsiddha@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, smap: Do not abuse the [f][x]rstor_checking() functions for user space</title>
<updated>2012-09-25T22:42:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-25T22:42:18+00:00</published>
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With SMAP, the [f][x]rstor_checking() functions are no longer usable
for user-space pointers by applying a simple __force cast.  Instead,
create new [f][x]rstor_user() functions which do the proper SMAP
magic.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343171129-2747-3-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
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With SMAP, the [f][x]rstor_checking() functions are no longer usable
for user-space pointers by applying a simple __force cast.  Instead,
create new [f][x]rstor_user() functions which do the proper SMAP
magic.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343171129-2747-3-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, fpu: make eagerfpu= boot param tri-state</title>
<updated>2012-09-18T22:52:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-10T17:32:32+00:00</published>
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Add the "eagerfpu=auto" (that selects the default scheme in
enabling eagerfpu) which can override compiled-in boot parameters
like "eagerfpu=on/off" (that force enable/disable eagerfpu).

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-5-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Add the "eagerfpu=auto" (that selects the default scheme in
enabling eagerfpu) which can override compiled-in boot parameters
like "eagerfpu=on/off" (that force enable/disable eagerfpu).

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-5-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, fpu: enable eagerfpu by default for xsaveopt</title>
<updated>2012-09-18T22:52:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-06T22:05:18+00:00</published>
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xsaveopt/xrstor support optimized state save/restore by tracking the
INIT state and MODIFIED state during context-switch.

Enable eagerfpu by default for processors supporting xsaveopt.
Can be disabled by passing "eagerfpu=off" boot parameter.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-3-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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xsaveopt/xrstor support optimized state save/restore by tracking the
INIT state and MODIFIED state during context-switch.

Enable eagerfpu by default for processors supporting xsaveopt.
Can be disabled by passing "eagerfpu=off" boot parameter.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-3-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, fpu: decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore from xsave</title>
<updated>2012-09-18T22:52:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-06T21:58:52+00:00</published>
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Decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore policy from the existence of the xsave
feature. Introduce a synthetic CPUID flag to represent the eagerfpu
policy. "eagerfpu=on" boot paramter will enable the policy.

Requested-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Requested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-2-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore policy from the existence of the xsave
feature. Introduce a synthetic CPUID flag to represent the eagerfpu
policy. "eagerfpu=on" boot paramter will enable the policy.

Requested-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Requested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-2-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, fpu: use non-lazy fpu restore for processors supporting xsave</title>
<updated>2012-09-18T22:52:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-24T21:13:02+00:00</published>
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Fundamental model of the current Linux kernel is to lazily init and
restore FPU instead of restoring the task state during context switch.
This changes that fundamental lazy model to the non-lazy model for
the processors supporting xsave feature.

Reasons driving this model change are:

i. Newer processors support optimized state save/restore using xsaveopt and
xrstor by tracking the INIT state and MODIFIED state during context-switch.
This is faster than modifying the cr0.TS bit which has serializing semantics.

ii. Newer glibc versions use SSE for some of the optimized copy/clear routines.
With certain workloads (like boot, kernel-compilation etc), application
completes its work with in the first 5 task switches, thus taking upto 5 #DNA
traps with the kernel not getting a chance to apply the above mentioned
pre-load heuristic.

iii. Some xstate features (like AMD's LWP feature) don't honor the cr0.TS bit
and thus will not work correctly in the presence of lazy restore. Non-lazy
state restore is needed for enabling such features.

Some data on a two socket SNB system:
 * Saved 20K DNA exceptions during boot on a two socket SNB system.
 * Saved 50K DNA exceptions during kernel-compilation workload.
 * Improved throughput of the AVX based checksumming function inside the
   kernel by ~15% as xsave/xrstor is faster than the serializing clts/stts
   pair.

Also now kernel_fpu_begin/end() relies on the patched
alternative instructions. So move check_fpu() which uses the
kernel_fpu_begin/end() after alternative_instructions().

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345842782-24175-7-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Merge 32-bit boot fix from,
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-4-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Cc: Jim Kukunas &lt;james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Fundamental model of the current Linux kernel is to lazily init and
restore FPU instead of restoring the task state during context switch.
This changes that fundamental lazy model to the non-lazy model for
the processors supporting xsave feature.

Reasons driving this model change are:

i. Newer processors support optimized state save/restore using xsaveopt and
xrstor by tracking the INIT state and MODIFIED state during context-switch.
This is faster than modifying the cr0.TS bit which has serializing semantics.

ii. Newer glibc versions use SSE for some of the optimized copy/clear routines.
With certain workloads (like boot, kernel-compilation etc), application
completes its work with in the first 5 task switches, thus taking upto 5 #DNA
traps with the kernel not getting a chance to apply the above mentioned
pre-load heuristic.

iii. Some xstate features (like AMD's LWP feature) don't honor the cr0.TS bit
and thus will not work correctly in the presence of lazy restore. Non-lazy
state restore is needed for enabling such features.

Some data on a two socket SNB system:
 * Saved 20K DNA exceptions during boot on a two socket SNB system.
 * Saved 50K DNA exceptions during kernel-compilation workload.
 * Improved throughput of the AVX based checksumming function inside the
   kernel by ~15% as xsave/xrstor is faster than the serializing clts/stts
   pair.

Also now kernel_fpu_begin/end() relies on the patched
alternative instructions. So move check_fpu() which uses the
kernel_fpu_begin/end() after alternative_instructions().

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345842782-24175-7-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Merge 32-bit boot fix from,
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-4-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Cc: Jim Kukunas &lt;james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<title>x86, fpu: remove unnecessary user_fpu_end() in save_xstate_sig()</title>
<updated>2012-09-18T22:52:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-24T21:12:58+00:00</published>
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Few lines below we do drop_fpu() which is more safer. Remove the
unnecessary user_fpu_end() in save_xstate_sig(), which allows
the drop_fpu() to ignore any pending exceptions from the user-space
and drop the current fpu.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345842782-24175-3-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<pre>
Few lines below we do drop_fpu() which is more safer. Remove the
unnecessary user_fpu_end() in save_xstate_sig(), which allows
the drop_fpu() to ignore any pending exceptions from the user-space
and drop the current fpu.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345842782-24175-3-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, fpu: drop_fpu() before restoring new state from sigframe</title>
<updated>2012-09-18T22:52:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-24T21:12:57+00:00</published>
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No need to save the state with unlazy_fpu(), that is about to get overwritten
by the state from the signal frame. Instead use drop_fpu() and continue
to restore the new state.

Also fold the stop_fpu_preload() into drop_fpu().

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345842782-24175-2-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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No need to save the state with unlazy_fpu(), that is about to get overwritten
by the state from the signal frame. Instead use drop_fpu() and continue
to restore the new state.

Also fold the stop_fpu_preload() into drop_fpu().

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345842782-24175-2-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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