4.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng...@intel.com> commit b22cbe404a9cc3c7949e380fa1861e31934c8978 upstream. Robert O'Callahan reported that after an execve PTRACE_GETREGSET NT_X86_XSTATE continues to return the pre-exec register values until the exec'ed task modifies FPU state. The test code is at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1164286. What is happening is fpu__clear() does not properly clear fpstate. Fix it by doing just that. Reported-by: Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org> Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng...@intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> Cc: David Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua...@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <ravi.v.shan...@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479402695-6553-1-git-send-email-yu-cheng...@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c @@ -517,14 +517,14 @@ void fpu__clear(struct fpu *fpu) { WARN_ON_FPU(fpu != ¤t->thread.fpu); /* Almost certainly an anomaly */ - if (!use_eager_fpu() || !static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FPU)) { - /* FPU state will be reallocated lazily at the first use. */ - fpu__drop(fpu); - } else { - if (!fpu->fpstate_active) { - fpu__activate_curr(fpu); - user_fpu_begin(); - } + fpu__drop(fpu); + + /* + * Make sure fpstate is cleared and initialized. + */ + if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FPU)) { + fpu__activate_curr(fpu); + user_fpu_begin(); copy_init_fpstate_to_fpregs(); } }