This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ARM: fix PTRACE_SETVFPREGS on SMP systems to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: arm-fix-ptrace_setvfpregs-on-smp-systems.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e2dfb4b880146bfd4b6aa8e138c0205407cebbaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 23:14:56 +0100 Subject: ARM: fix PTRACE_SETVFPREGS on SMP systems From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit e2dfb4b880146bfd4b6aa8e138c0205407cebbaf upstream. 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. Fixes: 8130b9d7b9d8 ("ARM: 7308/1: vfp: flush thread hwstate before copying ptrace registers") Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -733,8 +733,8 @@ static int vfp_set(struct task_struct *t if (ret) return ret; - vfp_flush_hwstate(thread); thread->vfpstate.hard = new_vfp; + vfp_flush_hwstate(thread); return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/arm-fix-ptrace_setvfpregs-on-smp-systems.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html