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Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES

From Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES
Date 2016-02-22 23:20 +0100
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On 02/22/2016 12:48 PM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> It should have been:
> 
> 	xsave->header.xfeatures = xfeatures |
> 		(xsave->header.xfeatures & XFEATURE_MASK_SUPERVISOR);
> 
> I'll fix it.

Can we break it out to make it more clear?

/*
 * The state that came in from userspace was user-state only.
 * Mask all the user states out of 'xfeatures'.
 */
xsave->header.xfeatures &= XFEATURE_MASK_SUPERVISOR;
/*
 * add back in the features that came in from userspace
 */
xsave->header.xfeatures |= xfeatures

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[PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-02-22 20:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-22 21:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-02-22 22:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-22 23:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-02-22 23:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-02-22 23:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-02-23 00:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-02-23 00:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 08/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-23 00:00 +0100

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