[PATCH] powerpc: Avoid potential FP corruption with preempt and UP

Heikki Lindholm pointed out that there was a potential race with the
lazy CPU state (FP, VR, EVR) stuff if preempt is enabled.  The race
is that in the process of restoring FP state on sigreturn, the task
gets preempted by a user task that wants to use the FPU.  It will take
an FP unavailable exception, which will write the current FPU state
to the thread_struct, overwriting the values which sigreturn has
stored.  Note that this can only happen on UP since we don't implement
lazy CPU state on SMP.

The fix is to flush the lazy CPU state before updating the
thread_struct.  To do this we re-use the flush_lazy_cpu_state()
function from process.c.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/system.h b/include/asm-powerpc/system.h
index 0c58e32a9570..4c888303e85b 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/system.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/system.h
@@ -133,6 +133,14 @@ extern int fix_alignment(struct pt_regs *);
 extern void cvt_fd(float *from, double *to, struct thread_struct *thread);
 extern void cvt_df(double *from, float *to, struct thread_struct *thread);
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
+extern void discard_lazy_cpu_state(void);
+#else
+static inline void discard_lazy_cpu_state(void)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC
 extern void flush_altivec_to_thread(struct task_struct *);
 #else