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The Memory Protection Keys "rights register" (PKRU) is XSAVE-managed, and is saved/restored along with the FPU state. When kernel code accesses FPU regsisters, it does a delicate dance with preempt. Otherwise, the context switching code can get confused as to whether the most up-to-date state is in the registers themselves or in the XSAVE buffer. But, PKRU is not a normal FPU register. Using it does not generate the normal device-not-available (#NM) exceptions which means we can not manage it lazily, and the kernel completley disallows using lazy mode when it is enabled. The dance with preempt *only* occurs when managing the FPU lazily. Since we never manage PKRU lazily, we do not have to do the dance with preempt; we can access it directly. Doing it this way saves a ton of complicated code (and is faster too). Further, the XSAVES reenabling failed to patch a bit of code in fpu__xfeature_set_state() the checked for compacted buffers. That check caused fpu__xfeature_set_state() to silently refuse to work when the kernel is using compacted XSAVE buffers. This broke execute-only and future pkey_mprotect() support when using compact XSAVE buffers. But, removing fpu__xfeature_set_state() gets rid of this issue, in addition to the nice cleanup and speedup. This fixes the same thing as a fix that Sai posted: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/25/637 The fix that he posted is a much more obviously correct, but I think we should just do this instead. Reported-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> 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: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Yu-Cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160727232040.7D060DAD@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
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