On 04/16, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> 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
>
> e7f180dcd8ab ("x86/fpu: Change xstateregs_get()/set() to use
> ->xsave.i387 rather than ->fxsave")
OOPS! thanks a lot!!!
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
> @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ int xstateregs_get(struct task_struct *target, const
> struct user_regset *regset,
> unsigned int pos, unsigned int count,
> void *kbuf, void __user *ubuf)
> {
> - struct xsave_struct *xsave = &target->thread.fpu.state->xsave;
> + struct xsave_struct *xsave;
> int ret;
>
> if (!cpu_has_xsave)
> @@ -351,6 +351,8 @@ int xstateregs_get(struct task_struct *target, const
> struct user_regset *regset,
> if (ret)
> return ret;
>
> + xsave = &target->thread.fpu.state->xsave;
> +
Yes, but don't we need the same change in xstateregs_set() ?
Oleg.
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