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    arm64: fpsimd: Fix state leakage when migrating after sigreturn · 0abdeff5
    Dave Martin authored
    When refactoring the sigreturn code to handle SVE, I changed the
    sigreturn implementation to store the new FPSIMD state from the
    user sigframe into task_struct before reloading the state into the
    CPU regs.  This makes it easier to convert the data for SVE when
    needed.
    
    However, it turns out that the fpsimd_state structure passed into
    fpsimd_update_current_state is not fully initialised, so assigning
    the structure as a whole corrupts current->thread.fpsimd_state.cpu
    with uninitialised data.
    
    This means that if the garbage data written to .cpu happens to be a
    valid cpu number, and the task is subsequently migrated to the cpu
    identified by the that number, and then tries to enter userspace,
    the CPU FPSIMD regs will be assumed to be correct for the task and
    not reloaded as they should be.  This can result in returning to
    userspace with the FPSIMD registers containing data that is stale or
    that belongs to another task or to the kernel.
    
    Knowingly handing around a kernel structure that is incompletely
    initialised with user data is a potential source of mistakes,
    especially across source file boundaries.  To help avoid a repeat
    of this issue, this patch adapts the relevant internal API to hand
    around the user-accessible subset only: struct user_fpsimd_state.
    
    To avoid future surprises, this patch also converts all uses of
    struct fpsimd_state that really only access the user subset, to use
    struct user_fpsimd_state.  A few missing consts are added to
    function prototypes for good measure.
    
    Thanks to Will for spotting the cause of the bug here.
    Reported-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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