Re: [PATCH 01/16] x86, fpu: wrap get_xsave_addr() to make it safer

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 05:46:24PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> +/*
> + * This wraps up the common operations that need to occur when retrieving
> + * data from an xsave struct.  It first ensures that the task was actually
> + * using the FPU and retrieves the data in to a buffer.  It then calculates
> + * the offset of the requested field in the buffer.
> + *
> + * This function is safe to call whether the FPU is in use or not.
> + *
> + * Inputs:
> + *	@tsk: the task from which we are fetching xsave state
> + *	@xsave_field: state which is defined in xsave.h (e.g. XSTATE_FP,
> + *	XSTATE_SSE, etc...)
> + * Output:
> + *	address of the state in the xsave area.
> + */
> +void *tsk_get_xsave_field(struct task_struct *tsk, int xsave_field)
> +{
> +	union thread_xstate *xstate;
> +
> +	if (!used_math())
> +		return NULL;

Shouldn't this be

	if (!tsk_used_math(tsk))

?

Because used_math() is looking at current, maybe even in
preemption-enabled paths - I'm eyeing task_get_bounds_dir() - and
that current might get changed from under us and it might happen that
current != tsk. Yes, no?

> +	/*
> +	 * unlazy_fpu() is poorly named and will actually
> +	 * save the xstate off in to the memory buffer.
> +	 */
> +	unlazy_fpu(tsk);
> +	xstate = tsk->thread.fpu.state;
> +
> +	return get_xsave_addr(&xstate->xsave, xsave_field);

And I understand this as "give me the xsave address of @tsk".

Right?

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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