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authorDaniel Glöckner <dg@emlix.com>2009-03-04 19:42:27 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-04 20:33:16 +0100
commitab9e18587f4cdb5f3fb3854c732f27a36f98e8f6 (patch)
treeb8d77d5fbdbdf919e4c0134762ff36ef11626802 /arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
parentdd39ecf522ba86c70809715af46e6557f6491131 (diff)
downloadlinux-ab9e18587f4cdb5f3fb3854c732f27a36f98e8f6.tar.bz2
x86, math-emu: fix init_fpu for task != current
Impact: fix math-emu related crash while using GDB/ptrace init_fpu() calls finit to initialize a task's xstate, while finit always works on the current task. If we use PTRACE_GETFPREGS on another process and both processes did not already use floating point, we get a null pointer exception in finit. This patch creates a new function finit_task that takes a task_struct parameter. finit becomes a wrapper that simply calls finit_task with current. On the plus side this avoids many calls to get_current which would each resolve to an inline assembler mov instruction. An empty finit_task has been added to i387.h to avoid linker errors in case the compiler still emits the call in init_fpu when CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not defined. The declaration of finit in i387.h has been removed as the remaining code using this function gets its prototype from fpu_proto.h. Signed-off-by: Daniel Glöckner <dg@emlix.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Pallipadi Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Bill Metzenthen <billm@melbpc.org.au> LKML-Reference: <E1Lew31-0004il-Fg@mailer.emlix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/i387.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/i387.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c b/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
index b0f61f0dcd0a..f2f8540a7f3d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ int init_fpu(struct task_struct *tsk)
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
if (!HAVE_HWFP) {
memset(tsk->thread.xstate, 0, xstate_size);
- finit();
+ finit_task(tsk);
set_stopped_child_used_math(tsk);
return 0;
}