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From 6db83cea1c975b9a102e17def7d2795814e1ae2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:04:41 +0100
Subject: arm64: fix possible invalid FPSIMD initialization state
From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
commit 6db83cea1c975b9a102e17def7d2795814e1ae2b upstream.
If context switching happens during executing fpsimd_flush_thread(),
stale value in FPSIMD registers will be saved into current thread's
fpsimd_state by fpsimd_thread_switch(). That may cause invalid
initialization state for the new process, so disable preemption
when executing fpsimd_flush_thread().
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
@@ -79,8 +79,10 @@ void fpsimd_thread_switch(struct task_st
void fpsimd_flush_thread(void)
{
+ preempt_disable();
memset(&current->thread.fpsimd_state, 0, sizeof(struct fpsimd_state));
fpsimd_load_state(&current->thread.fpsimd_state);
+ preempt_enable();
}
/*