Re: [PATCH 04/10] x86/fpu: Document reasoning of FX-only fallback

"Chang S. Bae" <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:23:46 -0700
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.criu,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/15/2026 12:37 PM, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> 
> This fallback is dangerous as it can trigger silent corruptions of
> user-space state by resetting extended registers if the process was
> using them but the frame metadata was malformed.
> 
> XSAVE was introduced 15 years ago, we may need to consider removing this
> fallback entirely or introducing a sysctl to enable/disable it.

This reads more like a separate problem statement. I don't see any 
follow-up implementing either option here.

Without additional context, it isn't entirely clear to me why this 
should be in this changelog at least.

Thanks,
Chang