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[ Upstream commit 7ad816762f9bf89e940e618ea40c43138b479e10 ] Previously, kernel floating point code would run with the MXCSR control register value last set by userland code by the thread that was active on the CPU core just before kernel call. This could affect calculation results if rounding mode was changed, or a crash if a FPU/SIMD exception was unmasked. Restore MXCSR to the kernel's default value. [ bp: Carve out from a bigger patch by Petteri, add feature check, add FNINIT call too (amluto). ] Signed-off-by: Petteri Aimonen <jpa@git.mail.kapsi.fi> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207979 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200624114646.28953-2-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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.