Patch "x86/boot: Initialize FPU and X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS even if we don't have CPUID" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/boot: Initialize FPU and X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS even if we don't have CPUID

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
x86-boot-initialize-fpu-and-x86_feature_always-even-if-we-don-t-have-cpuid.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 16:06:33 -0700
Subject: x86/boot: Initialize FPU and X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS even if we don't have CPUID

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>

commit 05fb3c199bb09f5b85de56cc3ede194ac95c5e1f upstream.

Otherwise arch_task_struct_size == 0 and we die. While we're at it, set X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS, too.

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c |   29 ++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

@@ -737,21 +737,20 @@ static void __init early_identify_cpu(st
 		identify_cpu_without_cpuid(c);
 
 	/* cyrix could have cpuid enabled via c_identify()*/
-	if (!have_cpuid_p())
-		return;
-
-	cpu_detect(c);
-	get_cpu_vendor(c);
-	get_cpu_cap(c);
-
-	if (this_cpu->c_early_init)
-		this_cpu->c_early_init(c);
-
-	c->cpu_index = 0;
-	filter_cpuid_features(c, false);
-
-	if (this_cpu->c_bsp_init)
-		this_cpu->c_bsp_init(c);
+	if (have_cpuid_p()) {
+		cpu_detect(c);
+		get_cpu_vendor(c);
+		get_cpu_cap(c);
+
+		if (this_cpu->c_early_init)
+			this_cpu->c_early_init(c);
+
+		c->cpu_index = 0;
+		filter_cpuid_features(c, false);
+
+		if (this_cpu->c_bsp_init)
+			this_cpu->c_bsp_init(c);
+	}
 
 	setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS);
 	fpu__init_system(c);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/x86-init-fix-cr4_init_shadow-on-cr4-less-machines.patch queue-4.4/x86-boot-initialize-fpu-and-x86_feature_always-even-if-we-don-t-have-cpuid.patch