Commit e2dfb4b8 authored May 30, 2016 by Russell King

ARM: fix PTRACE_SETVFPREGS on SMP systems



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: 8130b9d7 ("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>

parent ec953b70

arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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;
		}

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