Sebastian Andrzej Siewior fbcc9e0c37 x86/fpu: Remove fpu->initialized usage in copy_fpstate_to_sigframe()
With lazy-FPU support the (now named variable) ->initialized was set to
true if the CPU's FPU registers were holding a valid state of the
FPU registers for the active process. If it was set to false then the
FPU state was saved in fpu->state and the FPU was deactivated.

With lazy-FPU gone, ->initialized is always true for user threads and
kernel threads never call this function so ->initialized is always true
in copy_fpstate_to_sigframe().

The using_compacted_format() check is also a leftover from the lazy-FPU
time. In the

  ->initialized == false

case copy_to_user() would copy the compacted buffer while userland would
expect the non-compacted format instead. So in order to save the FPU
state in the non-compacted form it issues XSAVE to save the *current*
FPU state.

If the FPU is not enabled, the attempt raises the FPU trap, the trap
restores the FPU contents and re-enables the FPU and XSAVE is invoked
again and succeeds.

*This* does not longer work since commit

  bef8b6da95 ("x86/fpu: Handle #NM without FPU emulation as an error")

Remove the check for ->initialized because it is always true and remove
the false condition. Update the comment to reflect that the state is
always live.

 [ bp: Massage. ]

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: kvm ML <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190403164156.19645-6-bigeasy@linutronix.de
2019-04-09 20:48:11 +02:00
2019-03-07 18:32:03 -08:00
2019-03-29 10:01:37 -07:00
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