From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/fpu: factor out memset(xstate, 0) in fpu_finit() paths
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 12:38:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150304113837.GC3516@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150302183257.GC23085@redhat.com>
On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 07:32:57PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> fx_finit() has 2 users but only fpu_finit() needs to nullify xstate,
> alloc_bootmem_align() in setup_init_fpu_buf() returns zero-filled
> memory.
>
> And note that both memset()'s look confusing. Yes, offsetof() is 0
> for ->fxsave or ->fsave, but it would be more clean to turn them into
> a single memset() which nullifies fpu->state.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Applied, thanks.
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Boris.
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2015-03-02 18:32 ` [PATCH 0/2] x86/fpu: minor cleanups Oleg Nesterov
2015-03-02 18:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/regsets: change xstateregs_get/set to use ->xsave.i387 rather than ->fxsave Oleg Nesterov
2015-03-03 19:23 ` Rik van Riel
2015-03-04 10:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-03-10 10:08 ` [tip:x86/fpu] x86/fpu: Change xstateregs_get()/set() to use -> xsave.i387 " tip-bot for Oleg Nesterov
2015-03-02 18:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/fpu: factor out memset(xstate, 0) in fpu_finit() paths Oleg Nesterov
2015-03-03 22:01 ` Rik van Riel
2015-03-04 11:38 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2015-03-10 10:08 ` [tip:x86/fpu] x86/fpu: Factor out memset(xstate, 0) in fpu_finit( ) paths tip-bot for Oleg Nesterov
2015-03-09 18:08 [GIT PULL] x86/fpu cleanups Borislav Petkov
2015-03-10 6:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/fpu: Change xstateregs_get()/set() to use ->xsave.i387 rather than ->fxsave Borislav Petkov
2015-03-10 6:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/fpu: factor out memset(xstate, 0) in fpu_finit() paths Borislav Petkov
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