Re: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3031 at ./arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h:530 fpu__restore+0x90/0x130()

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 09:16:46AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > So I'm wondering why this started triggering only now. Is this a pre-existing bug 
> > that somehow got triggered via:
> > 
> >   58122bf1d856 x86/fpu: Default eagerfpu=on on all CPUs
> > 
> > ?
> 
> Well, that's an interesting question. See, the thing is, I triggered
> this only *once* by accident and I haven't seen it ever since.
> 
> The "reliable" "reproducer" I used to debug this was Andy's suggestion
> to stick a schedule() in __fpu__restore_sig().
> 
> So the answer to that question is not easy.
> 
> BUT(!), regardless, the bug still needs to be fixed because my tracing
> here

The fix is absolutely needed, I just would like deeper analysis about how it 
wasn't seen before.

> > If yes then we need a plausible theory of how that never triggered on modern 
> > Intel CPUs that had eagerfpu enabled for years.
> 
> AFAICT, it triggers - and the window is very small at that - only on
> 32-bit. If at all.

So it probably triggers on vanilla v4.4 (or v4.5-rc4) as well, with no recent FPU 
bits applied?

> I can certainly try to test all those but I don't have a reliable reproducer. 
> The only thing I could do is check out each of those commits and stick a 
> schedule() in __fpu__restore_sig() and see what happens.
> 
> But if my analysis above is right, none of those would matter because of the 
> mechanism of how the warn happens...

So if you stick a schedule() into vanilla and it triggers then I think we can 
declare it an existing bug. (and then the fix also needs Cc: stable)

Thanks,

	Ingo