Steve Best c1d8ad7a8f x86/fpu: Ensure XFD state on signal delivery
JIRA: https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/RHEL-213537

commit 388eff894d6bc5f921e9bfff0e4b0ab2684a96e9
Author: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Date:   Mon Jun 9 17:16:59 2025 -0700

    x86/fpu: Ensure XFD state on signal delivery

    Sean reported [1] the following splat when running KVM tests:

       WARNING: CPU: 232 PID: 15391 at xfd_validate_state+0x65/0x70
       Call Trace:
        <TASK>
        fpu__clear_user_states+0x9c/0x100
        arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x142/0x210
        exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x55/0x100
        do_syscall_64+0x205/0x2c0
        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

    Chao further identified [2] a reproducible scenario involving signal
    delivery: a non-AMX task is preempted by an AMX-enabled task which
    modifies the XFD MSR.

    When the non-AMX task resumes and reloads XSTATE with init values,
    a warning is triggered due to a mismatch between fpstate::xfd and the
    CPU's current XFD state. fpu__clear_user_states() does not currently
    re-synchronize the XFD state after such preemption.

    Invoke xfd_update_state() which detects and corrects the mismatch if
    there is a dynamic feature.

    This also benefits the sigreturn path, as fpu__restore_sig() may call
    fpu__clear_user_states() when the sigframe is inaccessible.

    [ dhansen: minor changelog munging ]

    Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aDCo_SczQOUaB2rS@google.com [1]
    Fixes: 672365477a ("x86/fpu: Update XFD state where required")
    Reported-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
    Tested-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aDWbctO%2FRfTGiCg3@intel.com [2]
    Cc:stable@vger.kernel.org
    Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250610001700.4097-1-chang.seok.bae%40intel.com

(cherry picked from commit 388eff894d6bc5f921e9bfff0e4b0ab2684a96e9)
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Signed-off-by: Steve Best <sbest@redhat.com>
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