From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Chuck Ebbert <chuckebbert.lk@gmail.com>,
Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] i387: ptrace breaks the lazy-fpu-restore logic
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:09:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120416220925.GA29434@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120416204815.GB24884@redhat.com>
Damn, I forgot to add
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.3
On 04/16, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Starting from 7e16838d "i387: support lazy restore of FPU state"
> we assume that fpu_owner_task doesn't need restore_fpu_checking()
> on the context switch, its FPU state should match what we already
> have in the FPU on this CPU.
>
> However, debugger can change the tracee's FPU state, in this case
> we should reset fpu.last_cpu to ensure fpu_lazy_restore() can't
> return true.
>
> Change init_fpu() to do this, it is called by user_regset->set()
> methods.
>
> Reported-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/i387.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c b/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
> index 7734bcb..2d6e649 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
> @@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ int init_fpu(struct task_struct *tsk)
> if (tsk_used_math(tsk)) {
> if (HAVE_HWFP && tsk == current)
> unlazy_fpu(tsk);
> + tsk->thread.fpu.last_cpu = ~0;
> return 0;
> }
>
> --
> 1.5.5.1
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-16 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-14 23:52 ptrace && fpu_lazy_restore Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-14 23:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-15 2:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-15 22:38 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-15 23:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-15 23:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-16 20:47 ` [PATCH 0/1] i387: ptrace breaks the lazy-fpu-restore logic Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-16 20:48 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-16 22:09 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2012-04-17 0:05 ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Oleg Nesterov
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