Re: [PATCH] x86/fpu/xstate: Fix xcomp_bv in XSAVES header

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jan 24 2017 - 03:10:16 EST



* Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The compacted-format XSAVES area is determined at boot time and
> never changed after. The field xsave.header.xcomp_bv indicates
> which components are in the fixed XSAVES format.
>
> In fpstate_init() we did not set xcomp_bv to reflect the XSAVES
> format since at the time there is no valid data.
>
> However, after we do copy_init_fpstate_to_fpregs() in fpu__clear(),
> as in commit: b22cbe404a9cc3c7949e380fa1861e31934c8978, and when
> __fpu_restore_sig() does fpu__restore() for a COMPAT-mode app,
> a #GP occurs. This can be easily triggered by doing valgrind on
> a COMPAT-mode "Hello World," as reported by Joakim Tjernlund and
> others:
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190061
>
> Fix it by setting xcomp_bv correctly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
> index c289e2f..e540dc1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
> #include <asm/fpu/regset.h>
> #include <asm/fpu/signal.h>
> #include <asm/fpu/types.h>
> +#include <asm/fpu/xstate.h>
> #include <asm/traps.h>
>
> #include <linux/hardirq.h>
> @@ -235,7 +236,8 @@ void fpstate_init(union fpregs_state *state)
> * it will #GP. Make sure it is replaced after the memset().
> */
> if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES))
> - state->xsave.header.xcomp_bv = XCOMP_BV_COMPACTED_FORMAT;
> + state->xsave.header.xcomp_bv = XCOMP_BV_COMPACTED_FORMAT |
> + xfeatures_mask;

Ok, I have applied this - but it would be cleaner to go one step further and add a
fpstate_init_xstate() method that does this in xstate.c and hides the details from
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c.

Similar to how the FX-state initialization is done today:

> if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FXSR))
> fpstate_init_fxstate(&state->fxsave);

Thanks,

Ingo