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    arm64: flush FP/SIMD state correctly after execve() · 674c242c
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    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().
    
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Reported-by: default avatarChunyan Zhang <chunyan.zhang@spreadtrum.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarJanet Liu <janet.liu@spreadtrum.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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