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x86/fpu/xstate: Copy xstate registers directly to the signal frame when compacted...
authorYu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Fri, 20 May 2016 17:47:08 +0000 (10:47 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sat, 18 Jun 2016 08:10:19 +0000 (10:10 +0200)
commit99aa22d0d8f70d9317727ab40c85b2ead740a6ca
tree34a01084331465f07c9fb42715bdad32e0ec59ac
parent7d9370607d28afd454775c623d5447603473a3c3
x86/fpu/xstate: Copy xstate registers directly to the signal frame when compacted format is in use

XSAVES is a kernel instruction and uses a compacted format. When working
with user space, the kernel should provide standard-format, non-supervisor
state data. We cannot do __copy_to_user() from a compacted-format kernel
xstate area to a signal frame.

Dave Hansen proposes this method to simplify copy xstate directly to user.

This patch is based on an earlier patch from Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>

Originally-from: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c36f419d525517d04209a28dd8e1e5af9000036e.1463760376.git.yu-cheng.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/xstate.h
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c