Re: [patch 09/31] x86/fpu: Do not inherit FPU context for CLONE_THREAD

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Oct 12 2021 - 12:10:49 EST


On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 02:00:11AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> CLONE_THREAD does not have the guarantee of a true fork to inherit all
> state. Especially the FPU state is meaningless for CLONE_THREAD.
>
> Just wipe out the minimal required state so restore on return to user space
> let's the thread start with a clean FPU.

This sentence reads weird, needs massaging.

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