Patch "arm64: fix possible invalid FPSIMD initialization state" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    arm64: fix possible invalid FPSIMD initialization state

to the 3.10-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:
     arm64-fix-possible-invalid-fpsimd-initialization-state.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 6db83cea1c975b9a102e17def7d2795814e1ae2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:04:41 +0100
Subject: arm64: fix possible invalid FPSIMD initialization state

From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 6db83cea1c975b9a102e17def7d2795814e1ae2b upstream.

If context switching happens during executing fpsimd_flush_thread(),
stale value in FPSIMD registers will be saved into current thread's
fpsimd_state by fpsimd_thread_switch(). That may cause invalid
initialization state for the new process, so disable preemption
when executing fpsimd_flush_thread().

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
@@ -79,8 +79,10 @@ void fpsimd_thread_switch(struct task_st
 
 void fpsimd_flush_thread(void)
 {
+	preempt_disable();
 	memset(&current->thread.fpsimd_state, 0, sizeof(struct fpsimd_state));
 	fpsimd_load_state(&current->thread.fpsimd_state);
+	preempt_enable();
 }
 
 /*


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.10/arm64-fix-possible-invalid-fpsimd-initialization-state.patch
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