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Date:   Mon, 21 Aug 2023 18:39:50 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc:     stable@vger.kernel.org, David Spickett <David.Spickett@arm.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.1.y] arm64/ptrace: Ensure that SME is set up for target
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On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 02:58:33PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> When we use NT_ARM_SSVE to either enable streaming mode or change the
> vector length for a process we do not currently do anything to ensure that
> there is storage allocated for the SME specific register state.  If the
> task had not previously used SME or we changed the vector length then
> the task will not have had TIF_SME set or backing storage for ZA/ZT
> allocated, resulting in inconsistent register sizes when saving state
> and spurious traps which flush the newly set register state.
> 
> We should set TIF_SME to disable traps and ensure that storage is
> allocated for ZA and ZT if it is not already allocated.  This requires
> modifying sme_alloc() to make the flush of any existing register state
> optional so we don't disturb existing state for ZA and ZT.
> 
> Fixes: e12310a0d30f ("arm64/sme: Implement ptrace support for streaming mode SVE registers")
> Reported-by: David Spickett <David.Spickett@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.19.x
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230810-arm64-fix-ptrace-race-v1-1-a5361fad2bd6@kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> (cherry picked from commit 5d0a8d2fba50e9c07cde4aad7fba28c008b07a5b)
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

Thanks, now queued up.

greg k-h