Re: [PATCH] x86/fpu: Set the corret permission value for perm.__state_perm

["Bae, Chang Seok" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>]

On Nov 8, 2021, at 14:28, Zhong, Yang <yang.zhong@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> The perm.__state_perm is default xsave set features, when we request
> AMX permission from application, the requested value(bit18) should be
> replaced with mask value(requested | permitted), which can keep default
> features there.
> 
> Without this change, the below prctl syscall:
> (1). ARCH_GET_XCOMP_PERM, the bitmask=0x202e7
> (2). set ARCH_REQ_XCOMP_PERM with XFEATURE_XTILEDATA
> (3). ARCH_GET_XCOMP_PERM, the bitmask=0x40000, the correct value
>     should be 0x602e7 here.

Oh, bad. 

> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c
> index d28829403ed0..fc1ab0116f4e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c
> @@ -1626,7 +1626,7 @@ static int __xstate_request_perm(u64 permitted, u64 requested)
> 		return ret;
> 
> 	/* Pairs with the READ_ONCE() in xstate_get_group_perm() */
> -	WRITE_ONCE(fpu->perm.__state_perm, requested);
> +	WRITE_ONCE(fpu->perm.__state_perm, mask);

I think this has to update the group leader’s like:
    WRITE_ONCE(current->group_leader->thread.fpu.perm.__state_perm, mask);

Thanks,
Chang