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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-12-11 08:41:08 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-12-11 08:41:08 +0100
commit42e64571d516ef761d9f330c80493637cbf3bdda (patch)
tree5f3df1c06c2d571efa5fd72d0c8022a80140eec2 /arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
parentb8f3bff057b017309fbd61fe74712b1f185b5399 (diff)
parent50c4c4e268a2d7a3e58ebb698ac74da0de40ae36 (diff)
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Merge 4.15-rc3 into tty-next
We want the serial/tty fixes in here as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
index b2adcce7bc18..6b7dcf4310ac 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
@@ -314,6 +314,15 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long stack_start,
clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_SVE);
p->thread.sve_state = NULL;
+ /*
+ * In case p was allocated the same task_struct pointer as some
+ * other recently-exited task, make sure p is disassociated from
+ * any cpu that may have run that now-exited task recently.
+ * Otherwise we could erroneously skip reloading the FPSIMD
+ * registers for p.
+ */
+ fpsimd_flush_task_state(p);
+
if (likely(!(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD))) {
*childregs = *current_pt_regs();
childregs->regs[0] = 0;