[PATCH 16/20] arm64/fpsimd: ptrace: Save task state before generating SVE header
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Tue May 6 08:25:19 PDT 2025
As sve_init_header_from_task() consumes the saved value of PSTATE.SM and
the saved fp_type, both must be saved before the header is generated.
When generating a coredump for the current task, sve_get_common() calls
sve_init_header_from_task() before saving the task's state. Consequently
the header may be bogus, and the contents of the regset may be
misleading.
Fix this by saving the task's state before generting the header.
Fixes: e12310a0d30f ("arm64/sme: Implement ptrace support for streaming mode SVE registers")
Fixes: b017a0cea627 ("arm64/ptrace: Use saved floating point state type to determine SVE layout")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: David Spickett <david.spickett at arm.com>
Cc: Luis Machado <luis.machado at arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
index bdba106a4cf29..67f3843de51f5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -820,15 +820,15 @@ static int sve_get_common(struct task_struct *target,
unsigned int vq;
unsigned long start, end;
+ if (target == current)
+ fpsimd_preserve_current_state();
+
/* Header */
sve_init_header_from_task(&header, target, type);
vq = sve_vq_from_vl(header.vl);
membuf_write(&to, &header, sizeof(header));
- if (target == current)
- fpsimd_preserve_current_state();
-
BUILD_BUG_ON(SVE_PT_FPSIMD_OFFSET != sizeof(header));
BUILD_BUG_ON(SVE_PT_SVE_OFFSET != sizeof(header));
--
2.30.2
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