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Dave Martin d0e9c77272 arm64: fpsimd: Prevent registers leaking from dead tasks 
commit 071b6d4a5d upstream.

Currently, loading of a task's fpsimd state into the CPU registers
is skipped if that task's state is already present in the registers
of that CPU.

However, the code relies on the struct fpsimd_state * (and by
extension struct task_struct *) to unambiguously identify a task.

There is a particular case in which this doesn't work reliably:
when a task exits, its task_struct may be recycled to describe a
new task.

Consider the following scenario:

 1) Task P loads its fpsimd state onto cpu C.
        per_cpu(fpsimd_last_state, C) := P;
        P->thread.fpsimd_state.cpu := C;

 2) Task X is scheduled onto C and loads its fpsimd state on C.
        per_cpu(fpsimd_last_state, C) := X;
        X->thread.fpsimd_state.cpu := C;

 3) X exits, causing X's task_struct to be freed.

 4) P forks a new child T, which obtains X's recycled task_struct.
	T == X.
	T->thread.fpsimd_state.cpu == C (inherited from P).

 5) T is scheduled on C.
	T's fpsimd state is not loaded, because
	per_cpu(fpsimd_last_state, C) == T (== X) &&
	T->thread.fpsimd_state.cpu == C.

        (This is the check performed by fpsimd_thread_switch().)

So, T gets X's registers because the last registers loaded onto C
were those of X, in (2).

This patch fixes the problem by ensuring that the sched-in check
fails in (5): fpsimd_flush_task_state(T) is called when T is
forked, so that T->thread.fpsimd_state.cpu == C cannot be true.
This relies on the fact that T is not schedulable until after
copy_thread() completes.

Once T's fpsimd state has been loaded on some CPU C there may still
be other cpus D for which per_cpu(fpsimd_last_state, D) ==
&X->thread.fpsimd_state.  But D is necessarily != C in this case,
and the check in (5) must fail.

An alternative fix would be to do refcounting on task_struct.  This
would result in each CPU holding a reference to the last task whose
fpsimd state was loaded there.  It's not clear whether this is
preferable, and it involves higher overhead than the fix proposed
in this patch.  It would also move all the task_struct freeing
work into the context switch critical section, or otherwise some
deferred cleanup mechanism would need to be introduced, neither of
which seems obviously justified.

Fixes: 005f78cd88 ("arm64: defer reloading a task's FPSIMD state to userland resume")
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
[will: word-smithed the comment so it makes more sense]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2017-12-14 09:53:02 +01:00
arch
block block: Fix a race between blk_cleanup_queue() and timeout handling 2017-11-30 08:40:52 +00:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto X.509: fix comparisons of ->pkey_algo 2017-12-14 09:52:53 +01:00
Documentation dt-bindings: timer: renesas, cmt: Fix SoC-specific compatible values 2017-12-10 13:40:41 +01:00
drivers media: rc: partial revert of "media: rc: per-protocol repeat period" 2017-12-14 09:53:00 +01:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs btrfs: handle errors while updating refcounts in update_ref_for_cow 2017-12-14 09:52:54 +01:00
include efi: Move some sysfs files to be read-only by root 2017-12-14 09:52:52 +01:00
init License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to some files 2017-11-02 10:04:46 -07:00
ipc License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kernel kdb: Fix handling of kallsyms_symbol_next() return value 2017-12-14 09:52:58 +01:00
lib ASN.1: check for error from ASN1_OP_END__ACT actions 2017-12-14 09:52:52 +01:00
mm mm, x86/mm: Fix performance regression in get_user_pages_fast() 2017-12-10 13:40:43 +01:00
net NFC: fix device-allocation error return 2017-11-30 08:40:55 +00:00
samples License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to some files 2017-11-02 10:04:46 -07:00
scripts scripts: add leaking_addresses.pl 2017-11-06 11:46:42 -08:00
security KEYS: reject NULL restriction string when type is specified 2017-12-14 09:52:53 +01:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Add check return value for usb_string() 2017-12-14 09:52:55 +01:00
tools hv: kvp: Avoid reading past allocated blocks from KVP file 2017-12-14 09:52:50 +01:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Check result of allocation before use 2017-12-14 09:53:01 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-09 18:26:51 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.14.5 2017-12-10 13:40:45 +01:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.