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Message-Id: <03F61C1A-0CA1-43BB-B2B5-C9D654943051@amacapital.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:42:28 -0700
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
"Liu, Jing2" <jing2.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
"Liu, Jing2" <jing2.liu@...el.com>,
"Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"Bae, Chang Seok" <chang.seok.bae@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 14/22] x86/fpu/xstate: Expand the xstate buffer on the first use of dynamic user state
> On Mar 24, 2021, at 2:30 PM, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/24/21 2:26 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>> 3. user space always uses fully uncompacted XSAVE buffers.
>>>
>> There is no reason we have to do this for new states. Arguably we
>> shouldn’t for AMX to avoid yet another altstack explosion.
>
> The thing that's worried me is that the list of OS-enabled states is
> visible to apps via XGETBV. It doesn't seem too much of a stretch to
> think that apps will see AMX enabled with XGETBV and them assume that
> it's on the signal stack.
>
> Please tell me I'm being too paranoid. If we can break this assumption,
> it would get rid of a lot of future pain.
There are no AMX apps. I sure hope that there are no apps that enumerate xfeatures with CPUID and try to decode the mess in the signal stack.
I do think we need to save AMX state *somewhere* if a signal happens unless userspace opts out, but I don’t think it needs to be in the nominally expected spot.
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