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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>arm64: fpsimd: Prevent registers leaking across exec</title>
<updated>2017-09-02T05:06:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
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<published>2017-08-18T15:57:01+00:00</published>
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commit 096622104e14d8a1db4860bd557717067a0515d2 upstream.

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.

Fixes: 674c242c9323 ("arm64: flush FP/SIMD state correctly after execve()")
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 096622104e14d8a1db4860bd557717067a0515d2 upstream.

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.

Fixes: 674c242c9323 ("arm64: flush FP/SIMD state correctly after execve()")
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Move FP/ASIMD hwcap handling to common code</title>
<updated>2015-10-21T14:35:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suzuki K. Poulose</name>
<email>suzuki.poulose@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-19T13:24:53+00:00</published>
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The FP/ASIMD is detected in fpsimd_init(), which is built-in
unconditionally. Lets move the hwcap handling to the central place.

Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The FP/ASIMD is detected in fpsimd_init(), which is built-in
unconditionally. Lets move the hwcap handling to the central place.

Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: flush FP/SIMD state correctly after execve()</title>
<updated>2015-08-27T08:55:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-27T06:12:33+00:00</published>
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When a task calls execve(), its FP/SIMD state is flushed so that
none of the original program state is observeable by the incoming
program.

However, since this flushing consists of setting the in-memory copy
of the FP/SIMD state to all zeroes, the CPU field is set to CPU 0 as
well, which indicates to the lazy FP/SIMD preserve/restore code that
the FP/SIMD state does not need to be reread from memory if the task
is scheduled again on CPU 0 without any other tasks having entered
userland (or used the FP/SIMD in kernel mode) on the same CPU in the
mean time. If this happens, the FP/SIMD state of the old program will
still be present in the registers when the new program starts.

So set the CPU field to the invalid value of NR_CPUS when performing
the flush, by calling fpsimd_flush_task_state().

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Chunyan Zhang &lt;chunyan.zhang@spreadtrum.com&gt;
Reported-by: Janet Liu &lt;janet.liu@spreadtrum.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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When a task calls execve(), its FP/SIMD state is flushed so that
none of the original program state is observeable by the incoming
program.

However, since this flushing consists of setting the in-memory copy
of the FP/SIMD state to all zeroes, the CPU field is set to CPU 0 as
well, which indicates to the lazy FP/SIMD preserve/restore code that
the FP/SIMD state does not need to be reread from memory if the task
is scheduled again on CPU 0 without any other tasks having entered
userland (or used the FP/SIMD in kernel mode) on the same CPU in the
mean time. If this happens, the FP/SIMD state of the old program will
still be present in the registers when the new program starts.

So set the CPU field to the invalid value of NR_CPUS when performing
the flush, by calling fpsimd_flush_task_state().

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Chunyan Zhang &lt;chunyan.zhang@spreadtrum.com&gt;
Reported-by: Janet Liu &lt;janet.liu@spreadtrum.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: fix bug for reloading FPSIMD state after CPU hotplug.</title>
<updated>2015-06-11T16:08:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Janet Liu</name>
<email>janet.liu@spreadtrum.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-11T04:02:45+00:00</published>
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Now FPSIMD don't handle HOTPLUG_CPU. This introduces bug after cpu down/up process.

After cpu down/up process, the FPSMID hardware register is default value, not any
process's fpsimd context. when CPU_DEAD set cpu's fpsimd_state to NULL, it will force
to load the fpsimd context for the thread, to avoid the chance to skip to load the context.
If process A is the last user process on CPU N before cpu down, and the first user process
on the same CPU N after cpu up, A's fpsimd_state.cpu is the current cpu id,
and per_cpu(fpsimd_last_state) points A's fpsimd_state, so kernel will not reload the
context during it return to user space.

Signed-off-by: Janet Liu &lt;janet.liu@spreadtrum.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xiongshan An &lt;xiongshan.an@spreadtrum.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang &lt;chunyan.zhang@spreadtrum.com&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: some mostly cosmetic clean-ups]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Now FPSIMD don't handle HOTPLUG_CPU. This introduces bug after cpu down/up process.

After cpu down/up process, the FPSMID hardware register is default value, not any
process's fpsimd context. when CPU_DEAD set cpu's fpsimd_state to NULL, it will force
to load the fpsimd context for the thread, to avoid the chance to skip to load the context.
If process A is the last user process on CPU N before cpu down, and the first user process
on the same CPU N after cpu up, A's fpsimd_state.cpu is the current cpu id,
and per_cpu(fpsimd_last_state) points A's fpsimd_state, so kernel will not reload the
context during it return to user space.

Signed-off-by: Janet Liu &lt;janet.liu@spreadtrum.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xiongshan An &lt;xiongshan.an@spreadtrum.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang &lt;chunyan.zhang@spreadtrum.com&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: some mostly cosmetic clean-ups]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: fix bug for reloading FPSIMD state after cpu power off</title>
<updated>2014-09-01T11:55:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leo Yan</name>
<email>leoy@marvell.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-01T03:09:51+00:00</published>
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Now arm64 defers reloading FPSIMD state, but this optimization also
introduces the bug after cpu resume back from low power mode.

The reason is after the cpu has been powered off, s/w need set the
cpu's fpsimd_last_state to NULL so that it will force to reload
FPSIMD state for the thread, otherwise there has the chance to meet
the condition for both the task's fpsimd_state.cpu field contains the
id of the current cpu, and the cpu's fpsimd_last_state per-cpu variable
points to the task's fpsimd_state, so finally kernel will skip to reload
the context during it return back to userland.

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan &lt;leoy@marvell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Now arm64 defers reloading FPSIMD state, but this optimization also
introduces the bug after cpu resume back from low power mode.

The reason is after the cpu has been powered off, s/w need set the
cpu's fpsimd_last_state to NULL so that it will force to reload
FPSIMD state for the thread, otherwise there has the chance to meet
the condition for both the task's fpsimd_state.cpu field contains the
id of the current cpu, and the cpu's fpsimd_last_state per-cpu variable
points to the task's fpsimd_state, so finally kernel will skip to reload
the context during it return back to userland.

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan &lt;leoy@marvell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: add support for kernel mode NEON in interrupt context</title>
<updated>2014-05-08T09:31:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-24T14:26:29+00:00</published>
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This patch modifies kernel_neon_begin() and kernel_neon_end(), so
they may be called from any context. To address the case where only
a couple of registers are needed, kernel_neon_begin_partial(u32) is
introduced which takes as a parameter the number of bottom 'n' NEON
q-registers required. To mark the end of such a partial section, the
regular kernel_neon_end() should be used.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
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This patch modifies kernel_neon_begin() and kernel_neon_end(), so
they may be called from any context. To address the case where only
a couple of registers are needed, kernel_neon_begin_partial(u32) is
introduced which takes as a parameter the number of bottom 'n' NEON
q-registers required. To mark the end of such a partial section, the
regular kernel_neon_end() should be used.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: defer reloading a task's FPSIMD state to userland resume</title>
<updated>2014-05-08T09:31:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-08T09:20:23+00:00</published>
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If a task gets scheduled out and back in again and nothing has touched
its FPSIMD state in the mean time, there is really no reason to reload
it from memory. Similarly, repeated calls to kernel_neon_begin() and
kernel_neon_end() will preserve and restore the FPSIMD state every time.

This patch defers the FPSIMD state restore to the last possible moment,
i.e., right before the task returns to userland. If a task does not return to
userland at all (for any reason), the existing FPSIMD state is preserved
and may be reused by the owning task if it gets scheduled in again on the
same CPU.

This patch adds two more functions to abstract away from straight FPSIMD
register file saves and restores:
- fpsimd_restore_current_state -&gt; ensure current's FPSIMD state is loaded
- fpsimd_flush_task_state -&gt; invalidate live copies of a task's FPSIMD state

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
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If a task gets scheduled out and back in again and nothing has touched
its FPSIMD state in the mean time, there is really no reason to reload
it from memory. Similarly, repeated calls to kernel_neon_begin() and
kernel_neon_end() will preserve and restore the FPSIMD state every time.

This patch defers the FPSIMD state restore to the last possible moment,
i.e., right before the task returns to userland. If a task does not return to
userland at all (for any reason), the existing FPSIMD state is preserved
and may be reused by the owning task if it gets scheduled in again on the
same CPU.

This patch adds two more functions to abstract away from straight FPSIMD
register file saves and restores:
- fpsimd_restore_current_state -&gt; ensure current's FPSIMD state is loaded
- fpsimd_flush_task_state -&gt; invalidate live copies of a task's FPSIMD state

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: add abstractions for FPSIMD state manipulation</title>
<updated>2014-05-08T09:31:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-24T14:26:27+00:00</published>
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There are two tacit assumptions in the FPSIMD handling code that will no longer
hold after the next patch that optimizes away some FPSIMD state restores:
. the FPSIMD registers of this CPU contain the userland FPSIMD state of
  task 'current';
. when switching to a task, its FPSIMD state will always be restored from
  memory.

This patch adds the following functions to abstract away from straight FPSIMD
register file saves and restores:
- fpsimd_preserve_current_state -&gt; ensure current's FPSIMD state is saved
- fpsimd_update_current_state -&gt; replace current's FPSIMD state

Where necessary, the signal handling and fork code are updated to use the above
wrappers instead of poking into the FPSIMD registers directly.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
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There are two tacit assumptions in the FPSIMD handling code that will no longer
hold after the next patch that optimizes away some FPSIMD state restores:
. the FPSIMD registers of this CPU contain the userland FPSIMD state of
  task 'current';
. when switching to a task, its FPSIMD state will always be restored from
  memory.

This patch adds the following functions to abstract away from straight FPSIMD
register file saves and restores:
- fpsimd_preserve_current_state -&gt; ensure current's FPSIMD state is saved
- fpsimd_update_current_state -&gt; replace current's FPSIMD state

Where necessary, the signal handling and fork code are updated to use the above
wrappers instead of poking into the FPSIMD registers directly.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: kernel: implement fpsimd CPU PM notifier</title>
<updated>2013-12-16T17:17:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Pieralisi</name>
<email>lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-19T16:48:08+00:00</published>
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When a CPU enters a low power state, its FP register content is lost.
This patch adds a notifier to save the FP context on CPU shutdown
and restore it on CPU resume. The context is saved and restored only
if the suspending thread is not a kernel thread, mirroring the current
context switch behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
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When a CPU enters a low power state, its FP register content is lost.
This patch adds a notifier to save the FP context on CPU shutdown
and restore it on CPU resume. The context is saved and restored only
if the suspending thread is not a kernel thread, mirroring the current
context switch behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: fix possible invalid FPSIMD initialization state</title>
<updated>2013-09-27T17:21:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiang Liu</name>
<email>jiang.liu@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-27T08:04:41+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;jiang.liu@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;liuj97@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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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 &lt;jiang.liu@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;liuj97@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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