[PATCH v2 04/24] arm64/fpsimd: signal: Consistently read FPSIMD context

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu May 8 06:26:24 PDT 2025


For historical reasons, restore_sve_fpsimd_context() has an open-coded
copy of the logic from read_fpsimd_context(), which is used to either
restore an FPSIMD-only context, or to merge FPSIMD state into an
SVE state when restoring an SVE+FPSIMD context. The logic is *almost*
identical.

Refactor the logic to avoid duplication and make this clearer.

This comes with two functional changes that I do not believe will be
problematic in practice:

* The user_fpsimd_state::size field will be checked in all restore paths
  that consume it user_fpsimd_state. The kernel always populates this
  field when delivering a signal, and so this should contain the
  expected value unless it has been corrupted.

* If a read of user_fpsimd_state fails, we will return early without
  modifying TIF_SVE, the saved SVCR, or the save fp_type. This will
  leave the task in a consistent state, without potentially resurrecting
  stale FPSIMD state. A read of user_fpsimd_state should never fail
  unless the structure has been corrupted or the stack has been
  unmapped.

Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas 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/signal.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
index e898948a31b65..87890d7be8de3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
@@ -264,30 +264,40 @@ static int preserve_fpsimd_context(struct fpsimd_context __user *ctx)
 	return err ? -EFAULT : 0;
 }
 
-static int restore_fpsimd_context(struct user_ctxs *user)
+static int read_fpsimd_context(struct user_fpsimd_state *fpsimd,
+			       struct user_ctxs *user)
 {
-	struct user_fpsimd_state fpsimd;
-	int err = 0;
+	int err;
 
 	/* check the size information */
 	if (user->fpsimd_size != sizeof(struct fpsimd_context))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/* copy the FP and status/control registers */
-	err = __copy_from_user(fpsimd.vregs, &(user->fpsimd->vregs),
-			       sizeof(fpsimd.vregs));
-	__get_user_error(fpsimd.fpsr, &(user->fpsimd->fpsr), err);
-	__get_user_error(fpsimd.fpcr, &(user->fpsimd->fpcr), err);
+	err = __copy_from_user(fpsimd->vregs, &(user->fpsimd->vregs),
+			       sizeof(fpsimd->vregs));
+	__get_user_error(fpsimd->fpsr, &(user->fpsimd->fpsr), err);
+	__get_user_error(fpsimd->fpcr, &(user->fpsimd->fpcr), err);
+
+	return err;
+}
+
+static int restore_fpsimd_context(struct user_ctxs *user)
+{
+	struct user_fpsimd_state fpsimd;
+	int err;
+
+	err = read_fpsimd_context(&fpsimd, user);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
 
 	clear_thread_flag(TIF_SVE);
 	current->thread.svcr &= ~SVCR_SM_MASK;
 	current->thread.fp_type = FP_STATE_FPSIMD;
 
 	/* load the hardware registers from the fpsimd_state structure */
-	if (!err)
-		fpsimd_update_current_state(&fpsimd);
-
-	return err ? -EFAULT : 0;
+	fpsimd_update_current_state(&fpsimd);
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int preserve_fpmr_context(struct fpmr_context __user *ctx)
@@ -427,12 +437,8 @@ static int restore_sve_fpsimd_context(struct user_ctxs *user)
 	 * consistency and robustness, reject restoring streaming SVE state
 	 * without an SVE payload.
 	 */
-	if (!sm && user->sve_size == sizeof(*user->sve)) {
-		clear_thread_flag(TIF_SVE);
-		current->thread.svcr &= ~SVCR_SM_MASK;
-		current->thread.fp_type = FP_STATE_FPSIMD;
-		goto fpsimd_only;
-	}
+	if (!sm && user->sve_size == sizeof(*user->sve))
+		return restore_fpsimd_context(user);
 
 	vq = sve_vq_from_vl(vl);
 
@@ -458,19 +464,14 @@ static int restore_sve_fpsimd_context(struct user_ctxs *user)
 		set_thread_flag(TIF_SVE);
 	current->thread.fp_type = FP_STATE_SVE;
 
-fpsimd_only:
-	/* copy the FP and status/control registers */
-	/* restore_sigframe() already checked that user->fpsimd != NULL. */
-	err = __copy_from_user(fpsimd.vregs, user->fpsimd->vregs,
-			       sizeof(fpsimd.vregs));
-	__get_user_error(fpsimd.fpsr, &user->fpsimd->fpsr, err);
-	__get_user_error(fpsimd.fpcr, &user->fpsimd->fpcr, err);
+	err = read_fpsimd_context(&fpsimd, user);
+	if (err)
+		return -EFAULT;
 
-	/* load the hardware registers from the fpsimd_state structure */
-	if (!err)
-		fpsimd_update_current_state(&fpsimd);
+	/* Merge the FPSIMD registers into the SVE state */
+	fpsimd_update_current_state(&fpsimd);
 
-	return err ? -EFAULT : 0;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 #else /* ! CONFIG_ARM64_SVE */
-- 
2.30.2




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