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+Backport of commit id 26bef1318adc1b3a530ecc807ef99346db2aa8b0 to kernel 3.12
+
+Before we do an EMMS in the AMD FXSAVE information leak workaround we
+need to clear any pending exceptions, otherwise we trap with a
+floating-point exception inside this code.
+
+Reported-by: halfdog <me@halfdog.net>
+Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
+Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA%2B55aFxQnY_PCG_n4=0w-VG=YLXL-yr7oMxyy0WU2gCBAf3ydg@mail.gmail.com
+Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
+Signed-off-by: Arindam Nath <arindam.nath@amd.com>
+diff -Naur a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h
+--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h 2013-11-04 05:11:51.000000000 +0530
++++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h 2014-04-09 16:51:26.665126690 +0530
+@@ -293,12 +293,13 @@
+ /* AMD K7/K8 CPUs don't save/restore FDP/FIP/FOP unless an exception
+ is pending. Clear the x87 state here by setting it to fixed
+ values. "m" is a random variable that should be in L1 */
+- alternative_input(
+- ASM_NOP8 ASM_NOP2,
+- "emms\n\t" /* clear stack tags */
+- "fildl %P[addr]", /* set F?P to defined value */
+- X86_FEATURE_FXSAVE_LEAK,
+- [addr] "m" (tsk->thread.fpu.has_fpu));
++ if (unlikely(static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FXSAVE_LEAK))) {
++ asm volatile(
++ "fnclex\n\t"
++ "emms\n\t"
++ "fildl %P[addr]" /* set F?P to defined value */
++ : : [addr] "m" (tsk->thread.fpu.has_fpu));
++ }
+
+ return fpu_restore_checking(&tsk->thread.fpu);
+ }