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Date:   Thu, 14 Oct 2021 14:44:33 +0300
From:   Ville =?iso-8859-1?Q?Syrj=E4l=E4?= <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc:     Ser Olmy <ser.olmy@protonmail.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, x86@kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [regression] commit d298b03506d3 ("x86/fpu: Restore the masking out
 of reserved MXCSR bits")
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Hi,

I have a 32bit installation here that stopped working. Bisected it
to commit d298b03506d3 ("x86/fpu: Restore the masking out of reserved
MXCSR bits").

dhcpcd was the first thing I notice being affected on account of
network not coming up, and after trying to look at it with gdb also
gdb turned out to be broken.

strace of dhcpcd shows a SIGFPE getting delivered, after which it gets
stuck (seem to be sitting in poll but not responding to even ^C).
And gdb seems to be stuck in a perpetual SIGFPE loop and won't even
get to the prompt.

The crucial bit here seems to be that most of the software is built
with -mfpmath=sse. After rebuilding dhcpcd without that it started
to work on the broken kernel. Rebuilding gdb didn't help so I whatever
SSE usage is causing the issue is presumably happening in a library.
Had to do the rebuilds on a working kernel as well because otherwise
the build itself would die to a SIGFPE somewhere.

Tested the same disk on on both a 64bit capable Pentium D
and a 32bit only Pentium 4 just to rule out the specific CPU.
Busted on both.

-- 
Ville Syrj?l?
Intel