| Message ID | 1385733826-2508-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com |
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| State | New |
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c index 8b4c049..c2a2001 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c @@ -450,7 +450,15 @@ static int save_user_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, struct mcontext __user *frame, if (copy_vsx_to_user(&frame->mc_vsregs, current)) return 1; msr |= MSR_VSX; - } + } else if (!ctx_has_vsx_region) + /* + * With a small context structure we can't hold the VSX + * registers, hence clear the MSR value to indicate the state + * was not saved. + */ + msr &= ~MSR_VSX; + + #endif /* CONFIG_VSX */ #ifdef CONFIG_SPE /* save spe registers */
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled powerpc/signals: Mark VSX not saved with small contexts to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ------ From ba936b8b1829a0e4ed8a4c559087ba1135323dae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:18:54 +1100 Subject: powerpc/signals: Mark VSX not saved with small contexts commit c13f20ac48328b05cd3b8c19e31ed6c132b44b42 upstream. The VSX MSR bit in the user context indicates if the context contains VSX state. Currently we set this when the process has touched VSX at any stage. Unfortunately, if the user has not provided enough space to save the VSX state, we can't save it but we currently still set the MSR VSX bit. This patch changes this to clear the MSR VSX bit when the user doesn't provide enough space. This indicates that there is no valid VSX state in the user context. This is needed to support get/set/make/swapcontext for applications that use VSX but only provide a small context. For example, getcontext in glibc provides a smaller context since the VSX registers don't need to be saved over the glibc function call. But since the program calling getcontext may have used VSX, the kernel currently says the VSX state is valid when it's not. If the returned context is then used in setcontext (ie. a small context without VSX but with MSR VSX set), the kernel will refuse the context. This situation has been reported by the glibc community. Based on patch from Carlos O'Donell. Tested-by: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 1.8.3.2