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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/fpu: Load xsave pointer *after* initialization
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:14:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <552FFC19.8030007@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1429207509-1717-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de>

On 04/16/2015 02:05 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> 
> So I was playing with gdb today and did this simple thing:
> 
> gdb /bin/ls
> 
> ...
> 
> (gdb) run
> 
> Box exploded with the splat at the end because we do cache
> &target->thread.fpu.state->xsave into the local variable xsave but
> that pointer is NULL at that time and it gets initialized later, in
> init_fpu(), see

> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-16 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-16 18:05 [PATCH] x86/fpu: Load xsave pointer *after* initialization Borislav Petkov
2015-04-16 18:14 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2015-04-16 18:20 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-04-16 18:31   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-16 18:41     ` [PATCH -v1.1] " Borislav Petkov
2015-04-17 13:06       ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-04-18 10:14       ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov

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