Re: [PATCH 02/19] x86, fpu: Wrap get_xsave_addr() to make it safer

[Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>]

On 05/28/2015 01:41 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> > +	union fpregs_state *xstate;
>> > +
>> > +	if (!current->thread.fpu.fpstate_active)
>> > +		return NULL;
>> > +	/*
>> > +	 * fpu__save() takes the CPU's xstate registers
>> > +	 * and saves them off to the 'fpu memory buffer.
>> > +	 */
>> > +	fpu__save(&current->thread.fpu);
>> > +	xstate = &current->thread.fpu.state;
>> > +
>> > +	return get_xsave_addr(&xstate->xsave, xsave_state);
> Small nit, this would become a lot shorter if you introduced a helper local 
> variable:
> 
> 	struct fpu *fpu = &current->thread.fpu;
> 
> But more importantly, for a generic get_xsave_field_ptr() API, fpu__save() is not 
> enough: fpu__save() will only save FPU registers into memory if necessary (i.e. if 
> the FPU is already in use), and if you call it on a task with no FPU state then it 
> will still have an !fpu->fpstate_active FPU state after the call, with random, 
> invalid data in the xsave area.

But why does this matter?  We just did a !fpu.fpstate_active check, so
we can't have a !fpu.fpstate_active before or after the call.