ARM: 7308/1: vfp: flush thread hwstate before copying ptrace registers
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:23:29 +0000 (20:23 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:06:05 +0000 (11:06 -0800)
commite358073331debaab9e14b3139bc469184288aa48
treef2230b09275a747f596c0a175fb768e18ad269f8
parentae3939e12cc597be0ba28d5f3b3d8f158f2d6d70
ARM: 7308/1: vfp: flush thread hwstate before copying ptrace registers

commit 8130b9d7b9d858aa04ce67805e8951e3cb6e9b2f upstream.

If we are context switched whilst copying into a thread's
vfp_hard_struct then the partial copy may be corrupted by the VFP
context switching code (see "ARM: vfp: flush thread hwstate before
restoring context from sigframe").

This patch updates the ptrace VFP set code so that the thread state is
flushed before the copy, therefore disabling VFP and preventing
corruption from occurring.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c