[PATCH v4 4/9] riscv: vector: init vector context with proper vlenb

Sergey Matyukevich geomatsi at gmail.com
Sat Nov 8 11:41:43 PST 2025


The vstate in thread_struct is zeroed when the vector context is
initialized. That includes read-only register vlenb, which holds
the vector register length in bytes. This zeroed state persists
until mstatus.VS becomes 'dirty' and a context switch saves the
actual hardware values.

This can expose the zero vlenb value to the user-space in early
debug scenarios, e.g. when ptrace attaches to a traced process
early, before any vector instruction except the first one was
executed.

Fix this by specifying proper vlenb on vector context init.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Matyukevich <geomatsi at gmail.com>
---
 arch/riscv/kernel/vector.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vector.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/vector.c
index 901e67adf576..34048c4c26dc 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vector.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vector.c
@@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ bool insn_is_vector(u32 insn_buf)
 	return false;
 }
 
-static int riscv_v_thread_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *cache,
-				 struct __riscv_v_ext_state *ctx)
+static int riscv_v_thread_ctx_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cache,
+				    struct __riscv_v_ext_state *ctx)
 {
 	void *datap;
 
@@ -120,13 +120,15 @@ static int riscv_v_thread_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *cache,
 
 	ctx->datap = datap;
 	memset(ctx, 0, offsetof(struct __riscv_v_ext_state, datap));
+	ctx->vlenb = riscv_v_vsize / 32;
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
 void riscv_v_thread_alloc(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_V_PREEMPTIVE
-	riscv_v_thread_zalloc(riscv_v_kernel_cachep, &tsk->thread.kernel_vstate);
+	riscv_v_thread_ctx_alloc(riscv_v_kernel_cachep, &tsk->thread.kernel_vstate);
 #endif
 }
 
@@ -212,12 +214,14 @@ bool riscv_v_first_use_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	 * context where VS has been off. So, try to allocate the user's V
 	 * context and resume execution.
 	 */
-	if (riscv_v_thread_zalloc(riscv_v_user_cachep, &current->thread.vstate)) {
+	if (riscv_v_thread_ctx_alloc(riscv_v_user_cachep, &current->thread.vstate)) {
 		force_sig(SIGBUS);
 		return true;
 	}
+
 	riscv_v_vstate_on(regs);
 	riscv_v_vstate_set_restore(current, regs);
+
 	return true;
 }
 
-- 
2.51.0




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