From: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>,
"Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>,
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 10/10] x86/xsaves: Re-enable XSAVES
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:12:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160429231252.GA15765@test-lenovo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5723C4CF.3050209@linux.intel.com>
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 01:32:15PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> The reason I haven't acked this patch is that I want to be _sure_ that
> we've audited all of the call paths that access the XSAVE buffer to
> ensure that they can all either handle the XSAVES format *or* don't care
> for whatever reason.
>
> Could you share the steps that you've taken to assure yourself that all
> of the call paths are handled and we don't have more bugs?
>
We tested for signal, ptrace, context switch, avx, and mpx. We also run
these tests with your audit patch to detect any format mis-match.
That said, I cannot be sure there are no more bugs. As you said, we want
to get this feature tested in the field and find potential issues early.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-29 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-04 18:12 [PATCH v4 0/10] x86/xsaves: Fix XSAVES known issues Yu-cheng Yu
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] x86/xsaves: Define and use user_xstate_size for xstate size in signal context Yu-cheng Yu
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] x86/xsaves: Rename xstate_size to kernel_xstate_size to explicitly distinguish xstate size in kernel from user space Yu-cheng Yu
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] x86/xsaves: Keep init_fpstate.xsave.header.xfeatures as zero for init optimization Yu-cheng Yu
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 20:09 ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 22:43 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-30 0:36 ` Dave Hansen
2016-05-02 15:57 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-05-02 16:06 ` Dave Hansen
2016-05-02 16:34 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-05-02 16:43 ` Dave Hansen
2016-05-02 17:19 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-05-02 17:33 ` Dave Hansen
2016-05-02 21:18 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-05-02 21:24 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-05-02 21:32 ` Dave Hansen
2016-05-02 22:17 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-05-02 22:37 ` Dave Hansen
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] x86/xsaves: Align xstate components according to CPUID Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 20:11 ` Dave Hansen
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] x86/xsaves: Supervisor state component offset Yu-cheng Yu
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 20:16 ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 20:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-29 20:40 ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 20:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-29 20:25 ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 22:30 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 22:36 ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 22:38 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix XSTATE component offset print out Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 20:26 ` Dave Hansen
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] x86/xsaves: Fix xstate_offsets, xstate_sizes for legacy components Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 20:28 ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 22:07 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 22:13 ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 22:15 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-03-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] x86/xsaves: Re-enable XSAVES Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 20:32 ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 23:12 ` Yu-cheng Yu [this message]
2016-04-30 0:40 ` Dave Hansen
2016-05-02 16:11 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-05-04 22:15 ` Dave Hansen
2016-05-04 22:21 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-05-04 22:41 ` Dave Hansen
2016-05-04 22:46 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-05-04 22:46 ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 0/10] x86/xsaves: Fix XSAVES known issues Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 19:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-04-29 19:57 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 20:03 ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 20:07 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2016-04-29 20:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-04-29 20:40 ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-29 20:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-04-29 22:42 ` Dave Hansen
2016-04-30 7:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-05-02 16:28 ` Dave Hansen
2016-05-02 18:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-04-29 20:37 ` Dave Hansen
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