ARM: fix PTRACE_SETVFPREGS on SMP systems
authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Mon, 30 May 2016 22:14:56 +0000 (23:14 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Thu, 2 Jun 2016 13:18:56 +0000 (14:18 +0100)
PTRACE_SETVFPREGS fails to properly mark the VFP register set to be
reloaded, because it undoes one of the effects of vfp_flush_hwstate().

Specifically vfp_flush_hwstate() sets thread->vfpstate.hard.cpu to
an invalid CPU number, but vfp_set() overwrites this with the original
CPU number, thereby rendering the hardware state as apparently "valid",
even though the software state is more recent.

Fix this by reverting the previous change.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 8130b9d7b9d8 ("ARM: 7308/1: vfp: flush thread hwstate before copying ptrace registers")
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tested-by: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c

index ef9119f..4d93758 100644 (file)
@@ -733,8 +733,8 @@ static int vfp_set(struct task_struct *target,
        if (ret)
                return ret;
 
-       vfp_flush_hwstate(thread);
        thread->vfpstate.hard = new_vfp;
+       vfp_flush_hwstate(thread);
 
        return 0;
 }