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The FPU usage related to task FPU management is either protected by
disabling interrupts (switch_to, return to user) or via fpregs_lock() which
is a wrapper around local_bh_disable(). When kernel code wants to use the
FPU then it has to check whether it is possible by calling irq_fpu_usable().
But the condition in irq_fpu_usable() is wrong. It allows FPU to be used
when:
!in_interrupt() || interrupted_user_mode() || interrupted_kernel_fpu_idle()
The latter is checking whether some other context already uses FPU in the
kernel, but if that's not the case then it allows FPU to be used
unconditionally even if the calling context interrupted a fpregs_lock()
critical region. If that happens then the FPU state of the interrupted
context becomes corrupted.
Allow in kernel FPU usage only when no other context has in kernel FPU
usage and either the calling context is not hard interrupt context or the
hard interrupt did not interrupt a local bottomhalf disabled region.
It's hard to find a proper Fixes tag as the condition was broken in one way
or the other for a very long time and the eager/lazy FPU changes caused a
lot of churn. Picked something remotely connected from the history.
This survived undetected for quite some time as FPU usage in interrupt
context is rare, but the recent changes to the random code unearthed it at
least on a kernel which had FPU debugging enabled. There is probably a
higher rate of silent corruption as not all issues can be detected by the
FPU debugging code. This will be addressed in a subsequent change.
Fixes:
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.