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SubjectRe: [RFC] x86: xsave/xrstor support, ucontext_t extensions
Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>
> > > While restoring from the user, kernel also need to find out what layout
> > > the user is passing. So it's bi-directional. I prefer the same mechanism
> > > (using cookies/magic numbers etc inaddition to uc_flags or cpuid checks) to
> > > interpret the fpstate for both user/kernel.
> >
> > No, it really doesn't: the kernel only needs to be able to read the same
> > format as it itself wrote.
>
> The kernel needs to accept one(*) of the formats it can produce, which
> is not necessarily what it last produced. It's not inconceivable that
> user-space will construct sigframes on the fly (to emulate setcontext),
> or that it will mangle sigframes (e.g. to map non-rt to rt before sigreturn).
>
> (*) The format is determined by which version of sys_sigreturn the
> user invokes.
>

No. You CANNOT restore from a frame that doesn't have the full state -
you don't have enough information to do so!

-hpa



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