Commit d2d92648 authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner Committed by Borislav Petkov

x86/fpu: Update stale comments

copy_fpstate_to_sigframe() does not have a slow path anymore. Neither does
the !ia32 restore in __fpu_restore_sig().

Update the comments accordingly.
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211015011538.493570236@linutronix.de
parent 9568bfb4
......@@ -155,10 +155,8 @@ static inline int copy_fpregs_to_sigframe(struct xregs_state __user *buf)
* buf == buf_fx for 64-bit frames and 32-bit fsave frame.
* buf != buf_fx for 32-bit frames with fxstate.
*
* Try to save it directly to the user frame with disabled page fault handler.
* If this fails then do the slow path where the FPU state is first saved to
* task's fpu->state and then copy it to the user frame pointed to by the
* aligned pointer 'buf_fx'.
* Save it directly to the user frame with disabled page fault handler. If
* that faults, try to clear the frame which handles the page fault.
*
* If this is a 32-bit frame with fxstate, put a fsave header before
* the aligned state at 'buf_fx'.
......@@ -334,12 +332,7 @@ static bool __fpu_restore_sig(void __user *buf, void __user *buf_fx,
}
if (likely(!ia32_fxstate)) {
/*
* Attempt to restore the FPU registers directly from user
* memory. For that to succeed, the user access cannot cause page
* faults. If it does, fall back to the slow path below, going
* through the kernel buffer with the enabled pagefault handler.
*/
/* Restore the FPU registers directly from user memory. */
return restore_fpregs_from_user(buf_fx, user_xfeatures, fx_only,
state_size);
}
......
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