Re: [PATCH 04/10] x86/fpu: Document reasoning of FX-only fallback

From: Chang S. Bae

Date: Tue Jun 30 2026 - 15:28:55 EST


On 6/15/2026 12:37 PM, Andrei Vagin wrote:

This fallback is dangerous as it can trigger silent corruptions of
user-space state by resetting extended registers if the process was
using them but the frame metadata was malformed.

XSAVE was introduced 15 years ago, we may need to consider removing this
fallback entirely or introducing a sysctl to enable/disable it.

This reads more like a separate problem statement. I don't see any follow-up implementing either option here.

Without additional context, it isn't entirely clear to me why this should be in this changelog at least.

Thanks,
Chang