[PATCH 0/1] i387: ptrace breaks the lazy-fpu-restore logic

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 04/15, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Put another way: I do think it would be a good idea to do the "reset
> last_cpu" in copy_thread() too. It doesn't really cost us anything,
> and it's cleaner to always just make sure that last_cpu is "valid"
> (even if the fpu_owner_task is *also* used to invalidate it, and even
> if we never use the lazy restore if fpu_counter is zero and thus
> fpu.preload isn't set).

Yes, this was my thinking too, and initially I was going to include
this change into this patch. But lets do it separately.

I feel we need some cleanups. For example, it seems that flush_thread()
can do this too, although in this case we can rely on __thread_fpu_end()
which clears fpu_owner_task.

So I am just sending your one-liner, and according to my testing it
fixes the problem.

And A couple of off-topic questions...


Why unlazy_fpu() clears ->fpu_counter? Afaics, this doesn't make
sense and unneeded.


And it is not clear to me why init_fpu() does unlazy_fpu(), afaics
tsk_used_math() "tsk == current" is only possible if this task dumps
the core.


arch_dup_task_struct() checks fpu_allocated(), this doesn't look
exactly right to me. Suppose that a task without PF_USED_MATH uses
FPU only once in the signal handler. If it forks after that, we
allocate and copy fpu->state for no reason. IOW, we probably should
check tsk_used_math() instead, but do memzero(&dst->thread.fpu)
unconditionally. And perhaps this memzero() deserves a helper
which can set .last_cpu = -1, and this is what copy_thread()
should call.


OTOH, this reminds me, a long ago I noticed by accident that all
threads on the testing machine have PF_USED_MATH set. IIRC, This
is because /sbin/init does memset or memcpy and glibc uses xmm
for this. Not that I really suggest this, but perhaps
prctl(PR_DROP_FPU) makes some sense.

Oleg.

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