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Userspace can change the FPU state of a task using the ptrace() or rt_sigreturn() system calls. Because reserved bits in the FPU state can cause the XRSTOR instruction to fail, the kernel has to carefully validate that no reserved bits or other invalid values are being set. Unfortunately, there have been bugs in this validation code. For example, we were not checking that the 'xcomp_bv' field in the xstate_header was 0. As-is, such bugs are exploitable to read the FPU registers of other processes on the system. To do so, an attacker can create a task, assign to it an invalid FPU state, then spin in a loop and monitor the values of the FPU registers. Because the task's FPU registers are not being restored, sometimes the FPU registers will have the values from another process. This is likely to continue to be a problem in the future because the validation done by the CPU instructions like XRSTOR is not immediately visible to kernel developers. Nor will invalid FPU states ever be encountered during ordinary use --- they will only be seen during fuzzing or exploits. There can even be reserved bits outside the xstate_header which are easy to forget about. For example, the MXCSR register contains reserved bits, which were not validated by the KVM_SET_XSAVE ioctl until commit |
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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. 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.