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Just like user xfeatures, supervisor xfeatures can be active in the registers or present in the task FPU buffer. If the registers are active, the registers can be modified directly. If the registers are not active, the modification must be performed on the task FPU buffer. When the state is not active, the kernel could perform modifications directly to the buffer. But in order for it to do that, it needs to know where in the buffer the specific state it wants to modify is located. Doing this is not robust against optimizations that compact the FPU buffer, as each access would require computing where in the buffer it is. The easiest way to modify supervisor xfeature data is to force restore the registers and write directly to the MSRs. Often times this is just fine anyway as the registers need to be restored before returning to userspace. Do this for now, leaving buffer writing optimizations for the future. Add a new function fpregs_lock_and_load() that can simultaneously call fpregs_lock() and do this restore. Also perform some extra sanity checks in this function since this will be used in non-fpu focused code. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com> Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-26-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.