Patch "x86/fpu: Remove the explicit clearing of XSAVE dependent features" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

x86/fpu: Remove the explicit clearing of XSAVE dependent features

to the 4.14-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-fpu-remove-the-explicit-clearing-of-xsave-dependent-features.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

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

From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 14:56:45 -0700
Subject: x86/fpu: Remove the explicit clearing of XSAVE dependent features

From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>

commit 73e3a7d2a7c3be29a5a22b85026f6cfa5664267f upstream.

Clearing a CPU feature with setup_clear_cpu_cap() clears all features which depend on it. Expressing feature dependencies in one place is easier to maintain than keeping functions like fpu__xstate_clear_all_cpu_caps() up to date.

The features which depend on XSAVE have their dependency expressed in the dependency table, so its sufficient to clear X86_FEATURE_XSAVE.

Remove the explicit clearing of XSAVE dependent features.

---
 arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c |   20 --------------------
 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-)

@@ -73,26 +73,6 @@ unsigned int fpu_user_xstate_size;
 void fpu__xstate_clear_all_cpu_caps(void)
 {
 	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XSAVE);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XSAVEOPT);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XSAVEC);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX2);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512F);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512IFMA);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512PF);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512ER);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512CD);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512DQ);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512BW);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512VL);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_MPX);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XGETBV1);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512VBMI);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_PKU);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512_4VNNIW);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512_4FMAPS);
-	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512_VPOPCNTDQ);
 }
 
 /*

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

queue-4.14/bitops-add-clear-set_bit32-to-linux-bitops.h.patch queue-4.14/x86-fpu-remove-the-explicit-clearing-of-xsave-dependent-features.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpuid-add-generic-table-for-cpuid-dependencies.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpuid-prevent-out-of-bound-access-in-do_clear_cpu_cap.patch queue-4.14/x86-fpu-parse-clearcpuid-as-early-xsave-argument.patch queue-4.14/x86-fpu-make-xsave-check-the-base-cpuid-features-before-enabling.patch