[PATCH 3/4] x86, fpu: copy_process: sanitize fpu->last_cpu initialization

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Wed Aug 27 2014 - 14:54:43 EST


Cosmetic, but imho memset(&dst->thread.fpu, 0) is not good simply
because it hides the (important) usage of ->has_fpu/etc from grep.
Change this code to initialize the members explicitly.

And note that ->last_cpu = 0 looks simply wrong, this can confuse
fpu_lazy_restore() if per_cpu(fpu_owner_task, 0) has already exited
and copy_process() re-allocated the same task_struct. Fortunately
this is not actually possible because child->fpu_counter == 0 and
thus fpu_lazy_restore() will not be called, but still this is not
clean/robust.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 60076b4..36dfb1d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -66,7 +66,9 @@ int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src)
{
*dst = *src;

- memset(&dst->thread.fpu, 0, sizeof(dst->thread.fpu));
+ dst->thread.fpu.has_fpu = 0;
+ dst->thread.fpu.last_cpu = ~0;
+ dst->thread.fpu.state = NULL;
if (tsk_used_math(src)) {
int err = fpu_alloc(&dst->thread.fpu);
if (err)
--
1.5.5.1

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