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ptrace() has interfaces that let a ptracer inspect a ptracee's register state. This includes XSAVE state. The ptrace() ABI includes a hardware-format XSAVE buffer for both the SETREGS and GETREGS interfaces. In the old days, the kernel buffer and the ptrace() ABI buffer were the same boring non-compacted format. But, since the advent of supervisor states and the compacted format, the kernel buffer has diverged from the format presented in the ABI. This leads to two paths in the kernel: 1. Effectively a verbatim copy_to_user() which just copies the kernel buffer out to userspace. This is used when the kernel buffer is kept in the non-compacted form which means that it shares a format with the ptrace ABI. 2. A one-state-at-a-time path: copy_xstate_to_kernel(). This is theoretically slower since it does a bunch of piecemeal copies. Remove the verbatim copy case. Speed probably does not matter in this path, and the vast majority of new hardware will use the one-state-at-a-time path anyway. This ensures greater testing for the "slow" path. This also makes enabling PKRU in this interface easier since a single path can be patched instead of two. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210623121452.408457100@linutronix.de
Linux kernel
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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.