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Revision 827409b2f5b58573ae3774fe6bd2d6daeb335878 authored by Ingo Molnar on 27 May 2015, 10:22:29 UTC, committed by Ingo Molnar on 22 August 2015, 08:23:03 UTC
During later stages of math-emu bootup the following crash triggers:

	 math_emulate: 0060:c100d0a8
	 Kernel panic - not syncing: Math emulation needed in kernel
	 CPU: 0 PID: 1511 Comm: login Not tainted 4.2.0-rc7+ #1012
	 [...]
	 Call Trace:
	  [<c181d50d>] dump_stack+0x41/0x52
	  [<c181c918>] panic+0x77/0x189
	  [<c1003530>] ? math_error+0x140/0x140
	  [<c164c2d7>] math_emulate+0xba7/0xbd0
	  [<c100d0a8>] ? fpu__copy+0x138/0x1c0
	  [<c1109c3c>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x12c/0x870
	  [<c136ac20>] ? proc_clear_tty+0x40/0x70
	  [<c136ac6e>] ? session_clear_tty+0x1e/0x30
	  [<c1003530>] ? math_error+0x140/0x140
	  [<c1003575>] do_device_not_available+0x45/0x70
	  [<c100d0a8>] ? fpu__copy+0x138/0x1c0
	  [<c18258e6>] error_code+0x5a/0x60
	  [<c1003530>] ? math_error+0x140/0x140
	  [<c100d0a8>] ? fpu__copy+0x138/0x1c0
	  [<c100c205>] arch_dup_task_struct+0x25/0x30
	  [<c1048cea>] copy_process.part.51+0xea/0x1480
	  [<c115a8e5>] ? dput+0x175/0x200
	  [<c136af70>] ? no_tty+0x30/0x30
	  [<c1157242>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x322/0x540
	  [<c104a21a>] _do_fork+0xca/0x340
	  [<c1057b06>] ? SyS_rt_sigaction+0x66/0x90
	  [<c104a557>] SyS_clone+0x27/0x30
	  [<c1824a80>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x12

The reason is the incorrect assumption in fpu_copy(), that FNSAVE
can be executed from math-emu kernels as well.

Don't try to copy the registers, the soft state will be copied
by fork anyway, so the child task inherits the parent task's
soft math state.

With this fix applied math-emu kernels boot up fine on modern
hardware and the 'no387 nofxsr' boot options.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Tip revision: 827409b2f5b58573ae3774fe6bd2d6daeb335878 authored by Ingo Molnar on 27 May 2015, 10:22:29 UTC
x86/fpu/math-emu: Fix crash in fork()
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