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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
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With lazy-FPU support the (now named variable) ->initialized was set to
true if the CPU's FPU registers were holding a valid state of the
FPU registers for the active process. If it was set to false then the
FPU state was saved in fpu->state and the FPU was deactivated.
With lazy-FPU gone, ->initialized is always true for user threads and
kernel threads never call this function so ->initialized is always true
in copy_fpstate_to_sigframe().
The using_compacted_format() check is also a leftover from the lazy-FPU
time. In the
->initialized == false
case copy_to_user() would copy the compacted buffer while userland would
expect the non-compacted format instead. So in order to save the FPU
state in the non-compacted form it issues XSAVE to save the *current*
FPU state.
If the FPU is not enabled, the attempt raises the FPU trap, the trap
restores the FPU contents and re-enables the FPU and XSAVE is invoked
again and succeeds.
*This* does not longer work since commit
bef8b6da95 ("x86/fpu: Handle #NM without FPU emulation as an error")
Remove the check for ->initialized because it is always true and remove
the false condition. Update the comment to reflect that the state is
always live.
[ bp: Massage. ]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <[email protected]>
Cc: kvm ML <[email protected]>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: x86-ml <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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