From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753511AbcEIXcH (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2016 19:32:07 -0400 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([134.134.136.65]:60580 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752192AbcEIXcG (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2016 19:32:06 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.24,602,1455004800"; d="scan'208";a="949587170" Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 11/13] x86/xsaves: Add WARN_ON_FPU() when a disabled xstate component offset is requested for a compacted format To: Yu-cheng Yu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar References: Cc: Andy Lutomirski , Borislav Petkov , Sai Praneeth Prakhya , "Ravi V. Shankar" , Fenghua Yu From: Dave Hansen Message-ID: <57311DC6.5000503@linux.intel.com> Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 16:31:18 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/09/2016 01:46 PM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote: > Add a warning in case a disabled (not existing) xstate component offset > is requested. ... > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c > index 350814c..2e6dbfe 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c > @@ -756,6 +756,7 @@ void *__raw_xsave_addr(struct xregs_state *xsave, int xstate_feature_mask) > { > int feature_nr = fls64(xstate_feature_mask) - 1; > > + WARN_ON_FPU(using_compacted_format() && !xfeature_enabled(feature_nr)); > return (void *)xsave + xstate_comp_offsets[feature_nr]; > } Why the using_compacted_format()? Shouldn't this be an error, regardless. Also, what is xstate_comp_offsets[feature_nr] in this case? Isn't it -1? Should we be returning NULL along with WARN()ing?