Re: [PATCH V2] LoongArch: Ensure FP/SIMD registers in the core dump file is up to date

From: Greg KH
Date: Sat Aug 26 2023 - 11:44:24 EST


On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 11:35:31PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 11:22 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 10:23:41PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> > > This is a port of commit 379eb01c21795edb4c ("riscv: Ensure the value
> > > of FP registers in the core dump file is up to date").
> > >
> > > The values of FP/SIMD registers in the core dump file come from the
> > > thread.fpu. However, kernel saves the FP/SIMD registers only before
> > > scheduling out the process. If no process switch happens during the
> > > exception handling, kernel will not have a chance to save the latest
> > > values of FP/SIMD registers. So it may cause their values in the core
> > > dump file incorrect. To solve this problem, force fpr_get()/simd_get()
> > > to save the FP/SIMD registers into the thread.fpu if the target task
> > > equals the current task.
> > >
> > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > V2: Rename get_fpu_regs() to save_fpu_regs().
> >
> > What stable tree(s) is this for?
> For 5.19+, but before 6.4 we should remove the call site in simd_get()
> because that function doesn't exist.

But this commit is already in the following released kernels:
5.10.62 5.13.14 5.14
so how can it be backported?

totally confused,

greg k-h