linux/arch
Suresh Siddha 870568b390 x86, fpu: fix CONFIG_PREEMPT=y corruption of application's FPU stack
Jürgen Mell reported an FPU state corruption bug under CONFIG_PREEMPT,
and bisected it to commit v2.6.19-1363-gacc2076, "i386: add sleazy FPU
optimization".

Add tsk_used_math() checks to prevent calling math_state_restore()
which can sleep in the case of !tsk_used_math(). This prevents
making a blocking call in __switch_to().

Apparently "fpu_counter > 5" check is not enough, as in some signal handling
and fork/exec scenarios, fpu_counter > 5 and !tsk_used_math() is possible.

It's a side effect though. This is the failing scenario:

process 'A' in save_i387_ia32() just after clear_used_math()

Got an interrupt and pre-empted out.

At the next context switch to process 'A' again, kernel tries to restore
the math state proactively and sees a fpu_counter > 0 and !tsk_used_math()

This results in init_fpu() during the __switch_to()'s math_state_restore()

And resulting in fpu corruption which will be saved/restored
(save_i387_fxsave and restore_i387_fxsave) during the remaining
part of the signal handling after the context switch.

Bisected-by: Jürgen Mell <j.mell@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jürgen Mell <j.mell@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2008-06-04 16:21:24 +02:00
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alpha [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
arm [ARM] integrator: fix build warnings and errors 2008-05-23 19:35:52 +01:00
avr32 avr32: Fix cpufreq oops when ondemand governor is default 2008-05-27 09:37:42 +02:00
blackfin Blackfin arch: Remove bad and usless code 2008-05-31 15:35:40 +08:00
cris [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
frv frv: export empty_zero_page 2008-05-24 09:56:13 -07:00
h8300 [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
ia64 [IA64] Workaround for RSE issue 2008-05-27 13:24:39 -07:00
m32r [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
m68k provide out-of-line strcat() for m68k 2008-05-21 16:56:00 -07:00
m68knommu [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
mips [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
mn10300 [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
parisc [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
powerpc [POWERPC] Fix DMA nodes in the MPC8610 HPCD device tree 2008-05-31 17:08:29 +10:00
ppc [POWERPC] Export empty_zero_page and copy_page in arch/ppc 2008-05-31 17:08:28 +10:00
s390 [S390] Update default configuration. 2008-05-30 10:03:36 +02:00
sh sh: Drop broken URAM support on SH7723. 2008-05-26 11:45:45 +09:00
sparc sparc: remove CVS keywords 2008-05-20 00:33:44 -07:00
sparc64 sparc64: Prevent stack backtrace false positives on trap frames. 2008-05-21 21:50:01 -07:00
um thanks to net/mac80211 we need to pull drivers/leds/Kconfig on uml 2008-05-21 16:55:58 -07:00
v850 [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
x86 x86, fpu: fix CONFIG_PREEMPT=y corruption of application's FPU stack 2008-06-04 16:21:24 +02:00
xtensa [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
.gitignore arch: Ignore arch/i386 and arch/x86_64 2008-01-19 21:29:39 -08:00
Kconfig dma: add dma_*map*_attrs() interfaces 2008-04-29 08:06:11 -07:00