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    arm64: fpsimd: Prevent registers leaking across exec · 09662210
    Dave Martin authored
    There are some tricky dependencies between the different stages of
    flushing the FPSIMD register state during exec, and these can race
    with context switch in ways that can cause the old task's regs to
    leak across.  In particular, a context switch during the memset() can
    cause some of the task's old FPSIMD registers to reappear.
    
    Disabling preemption for this small window would be no big deal for
    performance: preemption is already disabled for similar scenarios
    like updating the FPSIMD registers in sigreturn.
    
    So, instead of rearranging things in ways that might swap existing
    subtle bugs for new ones, this patch just disables preemption
    around the FPSIMD state flushing so that races of this type can't
    occur here.  This brings fpsimd_flush_thread() into line with other
    code paths.
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Fixes: 674c242c ("arm64: flush FP/SIMD state correctly after execve()")
    Reviewed-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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