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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-04-29 06:46:26 (GMT)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-05-19 13:48:02 (GMT)
commit2e85591a6ca2ad84741d2859753be5497d74bd42 (patch)
tree4a13e18e3de89e18ccc94adbc5fa58a83c0593cb /arch/x86/kernel/fpu
parentb1276c48e91bee869454301d3678cc49d8f57ab4 (diff)
downloadlinux-2e85591a6ca2ad84741d2859753be5497d74bd42.tar.xz
x86/fpu: Better document fpu__clear() state handling
So prior to this fix: c88d47480d30 ("x86/fpu: Always restore_xinit_state() when use_eager_cpu()") we leaked FPU state across execve() boundaries on eagerfpu systems: $ /host/home/mingo/dump-xmm-regs-exec # XMM state before execve(): XMM0 : 000000000000dede XMM1 : 000000000000dedf XMM2 : 000000000000dee0 XMM3 : 000000000000dee1 XMM4 : 000000000000dee2 XMM5 : 000000000000dee3 XMM6 : 000000000000dee4 XMM7 : 000000000000dee5 XMM8 : 000000000000dee6 XMM9 : 000000000000dee7 XMM10: 000000000000dee8 XMM11: 000000000000dee9 XMM12: 000000000000deea XMM13: 000000000000deeb XMM14: 000000000000deec XMM15: 000000000000deed # XMM state after execve(), in the new task context: XMM0 : 0000000000000000 XMM1 : 2f2f2f2f2f2f2f2f XMM2 : 0000000000000000 XMM3 : 0000000000000000 XMM4 : 00000000000000ff XMM5 : 00000000ff000000 XMM6 : 000000000000dee4 XMM7 : 000000000000dee5 XMM8 : 0000000000000000 XMM9 : 0000000000000000 XMM10: 0000000000000000 XMM11: 0000000000000000 XMM12: 0000000000000000 XMM13: 000000000000deeb XMM14: 000000000000deec XMM15: 000000000000deed Better explain what this function is supposed to do and why. Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/fpu')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
index 91b9935..a2e2da2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
@@ -348,6 +348,10 @@ void fpu__restore(void)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fpu__restore);
+/*
+ * Called by sys_execve() to clear the FPU fpregs, so that FPU state
+ * of the previous binary does not leak over into the exec()ed binary:
+ */
void fpu__clear(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
struct fpu *fpu = &tsk->thread.fpu;