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Commit 18ecb3bf authored by Borislav Petkov's avatar Borislav Petkov Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/fpu: Load xsave pointer *after* initialization



So I was playing with gdb today and did this simple thing:

	gdb /bin/ls

	...

	(gdb) run

Box exploded with this splat:

	BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000001d0
	IP: [<ffffffff8100fe5a>] xstateregs_get+0x7a/0x120
	[...]

	Call Trace:
	 ptrace_regset
	 ptrace_request
	 ? wait_task_inactive
	 ? preempt_count_sub
	 arch_ptrace
	 ? ptrace_get_task_struct
	 SyS_ptrace
	 system_call_fastpath

... because we do cache &target->thread.fpu.state->xsave into the
local variable xsave but that pointer is NULL at that time and
it gets initialized later, in init_fpu(), see:

	e7f180dc ("x86/fpu: Change xstateregs_get()/set() to use ->xsave.i387 rather than ->fxsave")

The fix is simple: load xsave *after* init_fpu() has run.

Also do the same in xstateregs_set(), as suggested by Oleg Nesterov.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429209697-5902-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent fd0f86b6
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