[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "arm64: flush FP/SIMD state correctly after execve()" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    arm64: flush FP/SIMD state correctly after execve()

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt8.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From fadafd14e652c8f3487c7ecab63f3f2e92b1bce4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:12:33 +0100
Subject: arm64: flush FP/SIMD state correctly after execve()

commit 674c242c9323d3c293fc4f9a3a3a619fe3063290 upstream.

When a task calls execve(), its FP/SIMD state is flushed so that
none of the original program state is observeable by the incoming
program.

However, since this flushing consists of setting the in-memory copy
of the FP/SIMD state to all zeroes, the CPU field is set to CPU 0 as
well, which indicates to the lazy FP/SIMD preserve/restore code that
the FP/SIMD state does not need to be reread from memory if the task
is scheduled again on CPU 0 without any other tasks having entered
userland (or used the FP/SIMD in kernel mode) on the same CPU in the
mean time. If this happens, the FP/SIMD state of the old program will
still be present in the registers when the new program starts.

So set the CPU field to the invalid value of NR_CPUS when performing
the flush, by calling fpsimd_flush_task_state().

Reported-by: Chunyan Zhang <chunyan.zhang at spreadtrum.com>
Reported-by: Janet Liu <janet.liu at spreadtrum.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
index 3dca156..c31e59f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ void fpsimd_thread_switch(struct task_struct *next)
 void fpsimd_flush_thread(void)
 {
 	memset(&current->thread.fpsimd_state, 0, sizeof(struct fpsimd_state));
+	fpsimd_flush_task_state(current);
 	set_thread_flag(TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE);
 }

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