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From: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] POE sigreturn fix and extra tests
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:42:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260421144252.1440365-1-kevin.brodsky@arm.com> (raw)

Commit 2e8a1acea859 ("arm64: signal: Improve POR_EL0 handling to
avoid uaccess failures") introduced special handling for EL0 registers
that impact uaccess. This did not however handle the case where a signal
handler removes the relevant record (poe_context for POE) from the
signal frame; this is clearly not typical behaviour but it is legal.
That commit resulted in arbitrary data from the kernel stack being
written to POR_EL0 in that case.

Patch 1 fixes this by tracking which fields in struct user_access_state
are actually valid. This restores the original behaviour, where POR_EL0
is left untouched if poe_context is removed.

The remaining patches add new tests to the arm64 signal kselftests to
check that POR_EL0 is reset and restored (or preserved) as expected.
---
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
---
Kevin Brodsky (4):
  arm64: signal: Preserve POR_EL0 if poe_context is missing
  kselftest/arm64: Add POE as a feature in the signal tests
  kselftest/arm64: Add POE helpers to test_signals_utils.h
  kselftest/arm64: Add tests for POR_EL0 save/reset/restore

 arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c                    | 19 +++--
 .../selftests/arm64/signal/test_signals.h     |  2 +
 .../arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.c         |  3 +
 .../arm64/signal/test_signals_utils.h         | 16 ++++
 .../testcases/poe_missing_poe_context.c       | 73 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../arm64/signal/testcases/poe_restore.c      | 64 ++++++++++++++++
 .../arm64/signal/testcases/poe_siginfo.c      | 15 ----
 7 files changed, 172 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/testcases/poe_missing_poe_context.c
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/testcases/poe_restore.c


base-commit: 028ef9c96e96197026887c0f092424679298aae8
-- 
2.51.2



             reply	other threads:[~2026-04-21 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-21 14:42 Kevin Brodsky [this message]
2026-04-21 14:42 ` [PATCH 1/4] arm64: signal: Preserve POR_EL0 if poe_context is missing Kevin Brodsky
2026-04-22 12:19   ` Will Deacon
2026-04-22 14:55     ` Kevin Brodsky
2026-04-23 12:41       ` Will Deacon
2026-04-24  9:24         ` Kevin Brodsky
2026-04-21 14:42 ` [PATCH 2/4] kselftest/arm64: Add POE as a feature in the signal tests Kevin Brodsky
2026-04-21 14:58   ` Mark Brown
2026-04-21 14:42 ` [PATCH 3/4] kselftest/arm64: Add POE helpers to test_signals_utils.h Kevin Brodsky
2026-04-21 15:00   ` Mark Brown
2026-04-21 14:42 ` [PATCH 4/4] kselftest/arm64: Add tests for POR_EL0 save/reset/restore Kevin Brodsky

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