[PATCH v3] riscv: hwprobe: fix has_fpu() to require D extension only

Ivy Lopez skunkolee at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 12:19:50 PDT 2026


The kernel never supports F without D, since D depends on F. As such,
has_fpu() checking either extension with '||' is incorrect: it
reports FPU support when only F is present, which is not sufficient
for D-dependent state save/restore, and weakens
RISCV_HWPROBE_IMA_FD semantics to "F or D" instead of "F and D".

Fix has_fpu() to check D only, which is equivalent to requiring both
extensions given the dependency. sys_hwprobe.c already calls
has_fpu() and needs no changes.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221874
Suggested-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>
Suggested-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ivy Lopez <skunkolee at gmail.com>
---
Changes in v3:
- Drop the sys_hwprobe.c hunk entirely: it already calls has_fpu(),
  no change needed there since v1 was never merged.
- This is a new thread per maintainer request, not a reply to v1/v2.

 arch/riscv/include/asm/switch_to.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/switch_to.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/switch_to.h
index 0e71eb82f920..8186cda88e17 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/switch_to.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/switch_to.h
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ static inline void __switch_to_fpu(struct task_struct *prev,
 
 static __always_inline bool has_fpu(void)
 {
-	return riscv_has_extension_likely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_f) ||
-		riscv_has_extension_likely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_d);
+	/* D extension depends on F, so checking D alone is sufficient. */
+	return riscv_has_extension_likely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_d);
 }
 #else
 static __always_inline bool has_fpu(void) { return false; }
-- 
2.55.0




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