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

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Apr 16 2012 - 18:10:08 EST


Damn, I forgot to add

Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.3

On 04/16, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Starting from 7e16838d "i387: support lazy restore of FPU state"
> we assume that fpu_owner_task doesn't need restore_fpu_checking()
> on the context switch, its FPU state should match what we already
> have in the FPU on this CPU.
>
> However, debugger can change the tracee's FPU state, in this case
> we should reset fpu.last_cpu to ensure fpu_lazy_restore() can't
> return true.
>
> Change init_fpu() to do this, it is called by user_regset->set()
> methods.
>
> Reported-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/i387.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c b/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
> index 7734bcb..2d6e649 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
> @@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ int init_fpu(struct task_struct *tsk)
> if (tsk_used_math(tsk)) {
> if (HAVE_HWFP && tsk == current)
> unlazy_fpu(tsk);
> + tsk->thread.fpu.last_cpu = ~0;
> return 0;
> }
>
> --
> 1.5.5.1
>

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