Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
x86/fpu/math-emu: Fix crash in fork()
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
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+ torvalds#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 <[email protected]>
Cc: Bobby Powers <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
  • Loading branch information
Ingo Molnar committed Aug 22, 2015
1 parent 5fc9603 commit 827409b
Showing 1 changed file with 1 addition and 1 deletion.
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ int fpu__copy(struct fpu *dst_fpu, struct fpu *src_fpu)
dst_fpu->fpregs_active = 0;
dst_fpu->last_cpu = -1;

if (src_fpu->fpstate_active)
if (src_fpu->fpstate_active && cpu_has_fpu)
fpu_copy(dst_fpu, src_fpu);

return 0;
Expand Down

0 comments on commit 827409b

Please sign in to comment.