[tip:x86/urgent] x86/fpu: Fix invalid FPU ptrace state after execve()

From: tip-bot for Yu-cheng Yu
Date: Mon Nov 21 2016 - 05:36:42 EST


Commit-ID: b22cbe404a9cc3c7949e380fa1861e31934c8978
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/b22cbe404a9cc3c7949e380fa1861e31934c8978
Author: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:11:35 -0800
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 10:38:35 +0100

x86/fpu: Fix invalid FPU ptrace state after execve()

Robert O'Callahan reported that after an execve PTRACE_GETREGSET
NT_X86_XSTATE continues to return the pre-exec register values
until the exec'ed task modifies FPU state.

The test code is at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1164286.

What is happening is fpu__clear() does not properly clear fpstate.
Fix it by doing just that.

Reported-by: Robert O'Callahan <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479402695-6553-1-git-send-email-yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
index 4700401..ebb4e95 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
@@ -521,14 +521,14 @@ void fpu__clear(struct fpu *fpu)
{
WARN_ON_FPU(fpu != &current->thread.fpu); /* Almost certainly an anomaly */

- if (!use_eager_fpu() || !static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FPU)) {
- /* FPU state will be reallocated lazily at the first use. */
- fpu__drop(fpu);
- } else {
- if (!fpu->fpstate_active) {
- fpu__activate_curr(fpu);
- user_fpu_begin();
- }
+ fpu__drop(fpu);
+
+ /*
+ * Make sure fpstate is cleared and initialized.
+ */
+ if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FPU)) {
+ fpu__activate_curr(fpu);
+ user_fpu_begin();
copy_init_fpstate_to_fpregs();
}
}