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From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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        "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
        Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [patch 13/31] x86/fpu: Move KVMs FPU swapping to FPU core
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Date:   Tue, 12 Oct 2021 20:25:48 +0200
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On Tue, Oct 12 2021 at 18:53, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 02:00:17AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>  	/*
>> -	 * Guests with protected state can't have it set by the hypervisor,
>> -	 * so skip trying to set it.
>> +	 * Guest with protected state have guest_fpu == NULL which makes
>
> "Guests ... "
>
>> +	 * the swap only safe the host state. Exclude PKRU from restore as
>
> "save"

No I meant safe, but let me rephrase it, Swap does both save and
restore. But it's not safe to dereference a NULL pointer :)

 .... makes the swap only handle the host state. Exclude PKRU from restore as

Thanks,

        tglx