Kernel-mode NEON will corrupt the SVE vector registers, due to the way they alias the FPSIMD vector registers in the hardware.
This patch ensures that any live SVE register content for the task is saved by kernel_neon_begin(). The data will be restored in the usual way on return to userspace. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> --- arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c index cea05a7..dd89acf 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c @@ -744,8 +744,10 @@ void kernel_neon_begin(void) __this_cpu_write(kernel_neon_busy, true); /* Save unsaved task fpsimd state, if any: */ - if (current->mm && !test_and_set_thread_flag(TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE)) - fpsimd_save_state(¤t->thread.fpsimd_state); + if (current->mm) { + task_fpsimd_save(); + set_thread_flag(TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE); + } /* Invalidate any task state remaining in the fpsimd regs: */ __this_cpu_write(fpsimd_last_state, NULL); -- 2.1.4 _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm
