Re: [PATCH v2 01/22] x86/fpu/xstate: Modify area init helper prototypes to access all the possible areas
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Dec 07 2020 - 18:11:42 EST
On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 11:03:27PM +0000, Bae, Chang Seok wrote:
> It was considered to be concise to represent, but it looks to be
> unreadable.
Not only unreadable but actively confusing - there *is* a "task" pointer
all around the kernel which we use for struct task_struct *.
> (I suspect this point applicable to PATCH2-4 as well.)
Looks like it.
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