Commit-ID:  383c252545edcc708128e2028a2318b05c45ede4
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/383c252545edcc708128e2028a2318b05c45ede4
Author:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 18:41:45 +0200
Committer:  Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 16:21:51 +0200

x86/entry: Add TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD

Add TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD. This flag is used for loading the FPU registers
before returning to userland. It must not be set on systems without a
FPU.

If this flag is cleared, the CPU's FPU registers hold the latest,
up-to-date content of the current task's (current()) FPU registers.
The in-memory copy (union fpregs_state) is not valid.

If this flag is set, then all of CPU's FPU registers may hold a random
value (except for PKRU) and it is required to load the content of the
FPU registers on return to userland.

Introduce it now as a preparatory change before adding the main feature.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Aubrey Li <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <[email protected]>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
Cc: kvm ML <[email protected]>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: x86-ml <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h | 8 ++++++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h  | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h 
b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h
index 6eb4a0b1ad0e..da75d7b3e37d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h
@@ -508,6 +508,14 @@ static inline void __fpregs_load_activate(struct fpu *fpu, 
int cpu)
  *  - switch_fpu_finish() restores the new state as
  *    necessary.
  *
+ * If TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD is cleared then the CPU's FPU registers
+ * are saved in the current thread's FPU register state.
+ *
+ * If TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD is set then CPU's FPU registers may not
+ * hold current()'s FPU registers. It is required to load the
+ * registers before returning to userland or using the content
+ * otherwise.
+ *
  * The FPU context is only stored/restored for a user task and
  * ->mm is used to distinguish between kernel and user threads.
  */
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h 
b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
index e0eccbcb8447..f9453536f9bb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ struct thread_info {
 #define TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY 11      /* notify kernel of userspace return */
 #define TIF_UPROBE             12      /* breakpointed or singlestepping */
 #define TIF_PATCH_PENDING      13      /* pending live patching update */
+#define TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD      14      /* load FPU on return to userspace */
 #define TIF_NOCPUID            15      /* CPUID is not accessible in userland 
*/
 #define TIF_NOTSC              16      /* TSC is not accessible in userland */
 #define TIF_IA32               17      /* IA32 compatibility process */
@@ -117,6 +118,7 @@ struct thread_info {
 #define _TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY        (1 << TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY)
 #define _TIF_UPROBE            (1 << TIF_UPROBE)
 #define _TIF_PATCH_PENDING     (1 << TIF_PATCH_PENDING)
+#define _TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD     (1 << TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD)
 #define _TIF_NOCPUID           (1 << TIF_NOCPUID)
 #define _TIF_NOTSC             (1 << TIF_NOTSC)
 #define _TIF_IA32              (1 << TIF_IA32)

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