On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:33:34AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>
>
> The MPX code appears to be saving off the FPU in an unsafe
> way. It does not disable preemption or ensure that the
> FPU state has been allocated.
>
> This patch introduces a new helper which will do both of
> those things internally.
>
> Note that this requires a patch from Oleg in order to work
> properly. It is currently in tip/x86/fpu.
>
> > commit f893959b0898bd876673adbeb6798bdf25c034d7
> > Author: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
> > Date: Fri Mar 13 18:30:30 2015 +0100
> >
> > x86/fpu: Don't abuse drop_init_fpu() in flush_thread()
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
> Cc: b...@alien8.de
> Cc: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Suresh Siddha <sbsid...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com>
> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua...@intel.com>
> Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x...@kernel.org>
> ---
>
> b/arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h | 1 +
> b/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
>
> diff -puN arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h~tsk_get_xsave_addr
> arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h~tsk_get_xsave_addr 2015-03-26
> 11:27:04.738204327 -0700
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h 2015-03-26 11:27:04.743204552 -0700
> @@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ static inline int xrestore_user(struct x
> }
>
> void *get_xsave_addr(struct xsave_struct *xsave, int xstate);
> +void *tsk_get_xsave_field(struct task_struct *tsk, int xstate_field);
> void setup_xstate_comp(void);
>
> #endif
> diff -puN arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c~tsk_get_xsave_addr arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c~tsk_get_xsave_addr 2015-03-26
> 11:27:04.740204417 -0700
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c 2015-03-26 11:27:04.744204597 -0700
> @@ -740,3 +740,35 @@ void *get_xsave_addr(struct xsave_struct
> return (void *)xsave + xstate_comp_offsets[feature];
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_xsave_addr);
> +
> +/*
> + * This wraps up the common operations that need to occur when retrieving
> + * data from an xsave struct. It first ensures that the task was actually
> + * using the FPU and retrieves the data in to a buffer. It then calculates
> + * the offset of the requested field in the buffer.
> + *
> + * This function is safe to call whether the FPU is in use or not.
> + *
> + * Inputs:
> + * tsk: the task from which we are fetching xsave state
> + * xstate: state which is defined in xsave.h (e.g. XSTATE_FP, XSTATE_SSE,
I think you mean @xsave_field here?
> + * etc.)
> + * Output:
> + * address of the state in the xsave area.
> + */
> +void *tsk_get_xsave_field(struct task_struct *tsk, int xsave_field)
> +{
> + union thread_xstate *xstate;
> +
> + if (!used_math())
> + return NULL;
> + /*
> + * unlazy_fpu() is poorly named and will actually
> + * save the xstate off in to the memory buffer.
> + */
> + unlazy_fpu(tsk);
> + xstate = tsk->thread.fpu.state;
> +
> + return get_xsave_addr(&xstate->xsave, xsave_field);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tsk_get_xsave_field);
I'm not sure we want to export this to modules... and MPX cannot be
built as a module either. So why export it?
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
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