From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754469AbcEBQCR (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2016 12:02:17 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:58494 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754317AbcEBQCA (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2016 12:02:00 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.24,568,1455004800"; d="scan'208";a="95712367" Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 08:57:35 -0700 From: Yu-cheng Yu To: Dave Hansen Cc: x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski , Borislav Petkov , Sai Praneeth Prakhya , "Ravi V. Shankar" , Fenghua Yu Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 04/10] x86/xsaves: Introduce a new check that allows correct xstates copy from kernel to user directly Message-ID: <20160502155734.GA21577@test-lenovo> References: <5723BF63.2000100@linux.intel.com> <20160429224338.GA15757@test-lenovo> <5723FE20.7000906@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5723FE20.7000906@linux.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 05:36:48PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > If may_copy_fpregs_to_sigframe() were called from a slightly different > context, or if we change the call-site, what breaks? > > In other words. if we can still "may_copy_fpregs_to_sigframe()" no > matter the state of fpu.fpstate_active, then I don't think we should be > checking it in may_copy_fpregs_to_sigframe(). Do you mean, don't check fpu.fpstate_active here?