[PATCH] arm64/gcs: Flush the GCS locking state on exec

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Dec 15 10:17:37 PST 2025


On Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:48:45 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> When we exec a new task we forget to flush the set of locked GCS mode bits.
> Since we do flush the rest of the state this means that if GCS is locked
> the new task will be unable to enable GCS, it will be locked as being
> disabled. Add the expected flush.
> 
> 

Applied to arm64 (for-next/fixes), thanks!

[1/1] arm64/gcs: Flush the GCS locking state on exec
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/98a97bf41528

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Catalin



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