Re: [tip: x86/fpu] x86/fpu/xstate: Define new functions for clearing fpregs and xstates

From: Ivan Zahariev
Date: Tue Nov 29 2022 - 06:26:48 EST


Hello gentlemen,
Hello Yu-cheng Yu,

Can you please take a look into this bug which syzbot tracked to a commit of yours (b860eb8dce5906b14e3a7f3c771e0b3d6ef61b94). Even since we switched from kernel 4.14 to 5.15 we are experiencing often random segmentation faults with the following error in "dmesg":

   post.sh[2237] bad frame in rt_sigreturn frame:00007ad24b2f8df8 ip:733cfa4351d1 sp:7ad24b2f9398 orax:ffffffffffffffff in libc-2.28.so[733cfa36d000+147000]

Most commonly Bash is getting hit by this problem but other binaries also experience the it less often.

Thomas Gleixner has already provided some insight and a simple reproducer: https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller-bugs/c/rbdQkahfwE4/m/RyWIrlA0BQAJ

If there is no simple fix, can we simply revert the faulty commit?

Best regards.
--Ivan