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Commit 1423e266 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge tag 'x86-fpu-2021-07-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 fpu updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Fixes and improvements for FPU handling on x86:

   - Prevent sigaltstack out of bounds writes.

     The kernel unconditionally writes the FPU state to the alternate
     stack without checking whether the stack is large enough to
     accomodate it.

     Check the alternate stack size before doing so and in case it's too
     small force a SIGSEGV instead of silently corrupting user space
     data.

   - MINSIGSTKZ and SIGSTKSZ are constants in signal.h and have never
     been updated despite the fact that the FPU state which is stored on
     the signal stack has grown over time which causes trouble in the
     field when AVX512 is available on a CPU. The kernel does not expose
     the minimum requirements for the alternate stack size depending on
     the available and enabled CPU features.

     ARM already added an aux vector AT_MINSIGSTKSZ for the same reason.
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