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x86/fpu: Fix i486 + no387 boot crash by only saving FPU registers on …
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…context switch if there is an FPU

commit 2224d61 upstream.

Booting an i486 with "no387 nofxsr" ends with with the following crash:

   math_emulate: 0060:c101987d
   Kernel panic - not syncing: Math emulation needed in kernel

on the first context switch in user land.

The reason is that copy_fpregs_to_fpstate() tries FNSAVE which does not work
as the FPU is turned off.

This bug was introduced in:

  f1c8cd0 ("x86/fpu: Change fpu->fpregs_active users to fpu->fpstate_active")

Add a check for X86_FEATURE_FPU before trying to save FPU registers (we
have such a check in switch_fpu_finish() already).

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f1c8cd0 ("x86/fpu: Change fpu->fpregs_active users to fpu->fpstate_active")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181016202525.29437-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior authored and gregkh committed Nov 10, 2018
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h
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Expand Up @@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ static inline void fpregs_activate(struct fpu *fpu)
static inline void
switch_fpu_prepare(struct fpu *old_fpu, int cpu)
{
if (old_fpu->initialized) {
if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FPU) && old_fpu->initialized) {
if (!copy_fpregs_to_fpstate(old_fpu))
old_fpu->last_cpu = -1;
else
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