linux-kernel - [PATCH 9/9] x86/fpu: Fix stale comment in ex_handler

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Date: Sat,  8 Jun 2024 09:31:34 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 9/9] x86/fpu: Fix stale comment in ex_handler_fprestore()

The state -> fpstate rename of the fpu::fpstate field didn't
get propagated to the comment describing ex_handler_fprestore(),
fix it.

Reported-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@...el.com>
Reviewed-by Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/mm/extable.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
index 1359ad75da3a..bf8dab18be97 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static bool ex_handler_sgx(const struct exception_table_entry *fixup,
 
 /*
  * Handler for when we fail to restore a task's FPU state.  We should never get
- * here because the FPU state of a task using the FPU (x86_task_fpu(task)->state)
+ * here because the FPU state of a task using the FPU (struct fpu::fpstate)
  * should always be valid.  However, past bugs have allowed userspace to set
  * reserved bits in the XSAVE area using PTRACE_SETREGSET or sys_rt_sigreturn().
  * These caused XRSTOR to fail when switching to the task, leaking the FPU
-- 
2.43.0