[PATCH 1/2] arm64/sve: Flush foreign register state in sve_init_regs()

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Wed Oct 30 13:23:50 PDT 2024


When we update the in memory register state in sve_init_regs() we neglect
to flush the task's CPU binding, meaning if the task is rescheduled to
the last CPU it ran on it is possible for the check for current state in
fpsimd_thread_switch() to falsely determine that up to date register
state is present on the CPU.  This results in it incorrectly clearing
TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE and suppress reloading.

This will also suppress the sve_user_enable() done in
fpsimd_bind_task_to_cpu() as part of return to userspace, causing
spurious SVE access traps.

Call fpsimd_flush_task_state() to invalidate the last loaded CPU
recorded in the task.

Fixes: cccb78ce89c4 ("arm64/sve: Rework SVE access trap to convert state in registers")
Reported-by: Mark Rutlamd <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
index 77006df20a75aee7c991cf116b6d06bfe953d1a4..6d21971ae5594f32947480cfa168db400a69a283 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
@@ -1367,6 +1367,7 @@ static void sve_init_regs(void)
 	} else {
 		fpsimd_to_sve(current);
 		current->thread.fp_type = FP_STATE_SVE;
+		fpsimd_flush_task_state(current);
 	}
 }
 

-- 
2.39.2




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