Patch "x86/fpu: Fix invalid FPU ptrace state after execve()" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/fpu: Fix invalid FPU ptrace state after execve()

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-fpu-fix-invalid-fpu-ptrace-state-after-execve.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From b22cbe404a9cc3c7949e380fa1861e31934c8978 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:11:35 -0800
Subject: x86/fpu: Fix invalid FPU ptrace state after execve()

From: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>

commit b22cbe404a9cc3c7949e380fa1861e31934c8978 upstream.

Robert O'Callahan reported that after an execve PTRACE_GETREGSET
NT_X86_XSTATE continues to return the pre-exec register values
until the exec'ed task modifies FPU state.

The test code is at:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1164286.

What is happening is fpu__clear() does not properly clear fpstate.
Fix it by doing just that.

Reported-by: Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479402695-6553-1-git-send-email-yu-cheng.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c |   16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
@@ -517,14 +517,14 @@ void fpu__clear(struct fpu *fpu)
 {
 	WARN_ON_FPU(fpu != &current->thread.fpu); /* Almost certainly an anomaly */
 
-	if (!use_eager_fpu() || !static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FPU)) {
-		/* FPU state will be reallocated lazily at the first use. */
-		fpu__drop(fpu);
-	} else {
-		if (!fpu->fpstate_active) {
-			fpu__activate_curr(fpu);
-			user_fpu_begin();
-		}
+	fpu__drop(fpu);
+
+	/*
+	 * Make sure fpstate is cleared and initialized.
+	 */
+	if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FPU)) {
+		fpu__activate_curr(fpu);
+		user_fpu_begin();
 		copy_init_fpstate_to_fpregs();
 	}
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yu-cheng.yu@intel.com are

queue-4.8/x86-fpu-fix-invalid-fpu-ptrace-state-after-execve.patch