arm64: ptrace: Flush FPSIMD regs back to thread_struct before reading
When reading the FPSIMD state of current (which occurs when dumping core), it is possible that userspace has modified the FPSIMD registers since the time the task was last scheduled out. Such changes are not guaranteed to be reflected immedately in thread_struct. As a result, a coredump can contain stale values for these registers. Reading the registers of a stopped task via ptrace is unaffected. This patch explicitly flushes the CPU state back to thread_struct before dumping when operating on current, thus ensuring that coredump contents are up to date. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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