Re: [PATCH] MIPS: kernel: Clear FPU states when setting up kernel threads

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Tue Dec 05 2023 - 13:01:47 EST


On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 11:12:21AM +0000, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
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> 在2023年11月30日十一月 下午4:36,Thomas Bogendoerfer写道:
> > io_uring sets up the io worker kernel thread via a syscall out of an
> > user space prrocess. This process might have used FPU and since
> > copy_thread() didn't clear FPU states for kernel threads a BUG()
> > is triggered for using FPU inside kernel. Move code around
> > to always clear FPU state for user and kernel threads.
> >
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Reported-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Closes: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1055021
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Perhaps
> Suggested-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> As well :-)

I've added both

Thomas.

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