[RFT PATCH v2 1/4] arm64: fix possible invalid FPSIMD initialization state
Jiang Liu
liuj97 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 13 10:20:17 EDT 2013
From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu at huawei.com>
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 at huawei.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97 at gmail.com>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
index 1f2e4d5..bb785d2 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
@@ -80,8 +80,10 @@ void fpsimd_thread_switch(struct task_struct *next)
void fpsimd_flush_thread(void)
{
+ preempt_disable();
memset(¤t->thread.fpsimd_state, 0, sizeof(struct fpsimd_state));
fpsimd_load_state(¤t->thread.fpsimd_state);
+ preempt_enable();
}
#ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON
--
1.8.1.2
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