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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: halfdog <me@halfdog.net>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Sanitize CPU-state when switching tasks (was sanitize CPU-state when switching from virtual-8086 mode to other task)
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 18:13:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52CF573F.8030300@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxQnY_PCG_n4=0w-VG=YLXL-yr7oMxyy0WU2gCBAf3ydg@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/09/2014 04:42 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>>
>> Ok, I was able to reproduce
> 
> Looking at this, I think this is just a bug in our
> restore_fpu_checking() hackery for X86_FEATURE_FXSAVE_LEAK..
> 
> Which also explains why it only triggers on E-350 - it's only relevant
> for those K7/K8 CPU's that use this.
> 
> Maybe just add a fcnlex to before the emms? Something like this
> (TOTALLY UNTESTED!!) attached patch.
> 

OK, that sounds very reasonable.  Boris, halfdog, does something like
this resolve your problem?

	-hpa



  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-10  2:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-28 22:02 Sanitize CPU-state when switching from virtual-8086 mode to other task halfdog
2013-12-29  2:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-29 20:44   ` halfdog
2013-12-30  1:18     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-30 15:52       ` halfdog
2013-12-31 18:42         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-31 19:21           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-31 22:40             ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-03 23:07               ` Sanitize FPU-state when switching tasks (was sanitize CPU-state when switching from virtual-8086 mode to other task) halfdog
2014-01-08  7:45               ` Sanitize CPU-state " halfdog
2014-01-08 17:42                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-08 19:36                   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-08 21:28                     ` halfdog
2014-01-08 22:39                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-09 22:58                         ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-10  0:42                           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-10  2:13                             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-01-10 10:06                               ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-10 11:16                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-10 11:34                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-10 16:11                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-12  3:22                             ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, fpu, amd: Clear exceptions in AMD FXSAVE workaround tip-bot for Linus Torvalds
2014-01-09 22:50                       ` Sanitize CPU-state when switching tasks (was sanitize CPU-state when switching from virtual-8086 mode to other task) halfdog
2014-01-09 23:02                         ` Borislav Petkov

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