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x86/fpu: Always use memcpy_and_pad() in arch_dup_task_struct()
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Sat, 3 May 2025 14:38:50 +0000 (16:38 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sun, 4 May 2025 08:29:25 +0000 (10:29 +0200)
commit2d299e3d773d519ee93e5aaa3ffddd4a6276b005
treebb56219a4c46774ffce8103ba0bae4f06864f7b7
parent8e269c030ecafbfebf4f55e24fb336fd7b489708
x86/fpu: Always use memcpy_and_pad() in arch_dup_task_struct()

It makes no sense to copy the bytes after sizeof(struct task_struct),
FPU state will be initialized in fpu_clone().

A plain memcpy(dst, src, sizeof(struct task_struct)) should work too,
but "_and_pad" looks safer.

[ mingo: Simplify it a bit more. ]

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Chang S . Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250503143850.GA8997@redhat.com
arch/x86/kernel/process.c