Re: [PATCH] x86/fpu: Update kernel's FPU state before using for the fsave header

[Eric Biggers]

On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 04:29:16PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> In commit
> 
>   39388e80f9b0c ("x86/fpu: Don't save fxregs for ia32 frames in copy_fpstate_to_sigframe()")
> 
> I removed the statement
> |       if (ia32_fxstate)
> |               copy_fxregs_to_kernel(fpu);
> 
> and argued that is was wrongly merged because the content was already
> saved in kernel's state and the content.
> This was wrong: It is required to write it back because it is only saved
> on the user-stack and save_fsave_header() reads it from task's
> FPU-state. I missed that partâ
> 
> Save x87 FPU state unless thread's FPU registers are already up to date.
> 
> Fixes: 39388e80f9b0c ("x86/fpu: Don't save fxregs for ia32 frames in copy_fpstate_to_sigframe()")
> Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c
> index 060d6188b4533..0071b794ed193 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c
> @@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ static inline int save_fsave_header(struct task_struct *tsk, void __user *buf)
>  		struct user_i387_ia32_struct env;
>  		struct _fpstate_32 __user *fp = buf;
>  
> +		fpregs_lock();
> +		if (!test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD))
> +			copy_fxregs_to_kernel(&tsk->thread.fpu);
> +		fpregs_unlock();
> +
>  		convert_from_fxsr(&env, tsk);
>  
>  		if (__copy_to_user(buf, &env, sizeof(env)) ||
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 

Tested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

- Eric