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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-08-18 11:11:03 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-08-18 11:11:03 -0700
commit039a8e38473323ed9f6c4415b4c3a36777efac34 (patch)
tree315d9235076a263249b8ee365b3eed51b13ab6b5
parent42833468027770b8b731e3d9620165873439d237 (diff)
parent5a69aec945d27e78abac9fd032533d3aaebf7c1e (diff)
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Merge tag 'powerpc-4.13-7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman: "A bug in the VSX register saving that could cause userspace FP/VMX register corruption. Never seen to happen (that we know of), was found by code inspection, but still tagged for stable given the consequences" * tag 'powerpc-4.13-7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: powerpc: Fix VSX enabling/flushing to also test MSR_FP and MSR_VEC
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index ec480966f9bf..1f0fd361e09b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -362,7 +362,8 @@ void enable_kernel_vsx(void)
cpumsr = msr_check_and_set(MSR_FP|MSR_VEC|MSR_VSX);
- if (current->thread.regs && (current->thread.regs->msr & MSR_VSX)) {
+ if (current->thread.regs &&
+ (current->thread.regs->msr & (MSR_VSX|MSR_VEC|MSR_FP))) {
check_if_tm_restore_required(current);
/*
* If a thread has already been reclaimed then the
@@ -386,7 +387,7 @@ void flush_vsx_to_thread(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
if (tsk->thread.regs) {
preempt_disable();
- if (tsk->thread.regs->msr & MSR_VSX) {
+ if (tsk->thread.regs->msr & (MSR_VSX|MSR_VEC|MSR_FP)) {
BUG_ON(tsk != current);
giveup_vsx(tsk);
}