FAILED: patch "[PATCH] arm64: fpsimd: Prevent registers leaking across exec" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 096622104e14d8a1db4860bd557717067a0515d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:57:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: fpsimd: Prevent registers leaking across exec

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 674c242c9323 ("arm64: flush FP/SIMD state correctly after execve()")
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
index 06da8ea16bbe..c7b4995868e1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
@@ -161,9 +161,11 @@ void fpsimd_flush_thread(void)
 {
 	if (!system_supports_fpsimd())
 		return;
+	preempt_disable();
 	memset(&current->thread.fpsimd_state, 0, sizeof(struct fpsimd_state));
 	fpsimd_flush_task_state(current);
 	set_thread_flag(TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE);
+	preempt_enable();
 }
 
 /*