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Historically SVE state was discarded deterministically early in the
syscall entry path, before ptrace is notified of syscall entry. This
permitted ptrace to modify SVE state before and after the "real" syscall
logic was executed, with the modified state being retained.
This behaviour was changed by commit:
8c845e2731 ("arm64/sve: Leave SVE enabled on syscall if we don't context switch")
That commit was intended to speed up workloads that used SVE by
opportunistically leaving SVE enabled when returning from a syscall.
The syscall entry logic was modified to truncate the SVE state without
disabling userspace access to SVE, and fpsimd_save_user_state() was
modified to discard userspace SVE state whenever
in_syscall(current_pt_regs()) is true, i.e. when
current_pt_regs()->syscallno != NO_SYSCALL.
Leaving SVE enabled opportunistically resulted in a couple of changes to
userspace visible behaviour which weren't described at the time, but are
logical consequences of opportunistically leaving SVE enabled:
* Signal handlers can observe the type of saved state in the signal's
sve_context record. When the kernel only tracks FPSIMD state, the 'vq'
field is 0 and there is no space allocated for register contents. When
the kernel tracks SVE state, the 'vq' field is non-zero and the
register contents are saved into the record.
As a result of the above commit, 'vq' (and the presence of SVE
register state) is non-deterministically zero or non-zero for a period
of time after a syscall. The effective register state is still
deterministic.
Hopefully no-one relies on this being deterministic. In general,
handlers for asynchronous events cannot expect a deterministic state.
* Similarly to signal handlers, ptrace requests can observe the type of
saved state in the NT_ARM_SVE and NT_ARM_SSVE regsets, as this is
exposed in the header flags. As a result of the above commit, this is
now in a non-deterministic state after a syscall. The effective
register state is still deterministic.
Hopefully no-one relies on this being deterministic. In general,
debuggers would have to handle this changing at arbitrary points
during program flow.
Discarding the SVE state within fpsimd_save_user_state() resulted in
other changes to userspace visible behaviour which are not desirable:
* A ptrace tracer can modify (or create) a tracee's SVE state at syscall
entry or syscall exit. As a result of the above commit, the tracee's
SVE state can be discarded non-deterministically after modification,
rather than being retained as it previously was.
Note that for co-operative tracer/tracee pairs, the tracer may
(re)initialise the tracee's state arbitrarily after the tracee sends
itself an initial SIGSTOP via a syscall, so this affects realistic
design patterns.
* The current_pt_regs()->syscallno field can be modified via ptrace, and
can be altered even when the tracee is not really in a syscall,
causing non-deterministic discarding to occur in situations where this
was not previously possible.
Further, using current_pt_regs()->syscallno in this way is unsound:
* There are data races between readers and writers of the
current_pt_regs()->syscallno field.
The current_pt_regs()->syscallno field is written in interruptible
task context using plain C accesses, and is read in irq/softirq
context using plain C accesses. These accesses are subject to data
races, with the usual concerns with tearing, etc.
* Writes to current_pt_regs()->syscallno are subject to compiler
reordering.
As current_pt_regs()->syscallno is written with plain C accesses,
the compiler is free to move those writes arbitrarily relative to
anything which doesn't access the same memory location.
In theory this could break signal return, where prior to restoring the
SVE state, restore_sigframe() calls forget_syscall(). If the write
were hoisted after restore of some SVE state, that state could be
discarded unexpectedly.
In practice that reordering cannot happen in the absence of LTO (as
cross compilation-unit function calls happen prevent this reordering),
and that reordering appears to be unlikely in the presence of LTO.
Additionally, since commit:
f130ac0ae4 ("arm64: syscall: unmask DAIF earlier for SVCs")
... DAIF is unmasked before el0_svc_common() sets regs->syscallno to the
real syscall number. Consequently state may be saved in SVE format prior
to this point.
Considering all of the above, current_pt_regs()->syscallno should not be
used to infer whether the SVE state can be discarded. Luckily we can
instead use cpu_fp_state::to_save to track when it is safe to discard
the SVE state:
* At syscall entry, after the live SVE register state is truncated, set
cpu_fp_state::to_save to FP_STATE_FPSIMD to indicate that only the
FPSIMD portion is live and needs to be saved.
* At syscall exit, once the task's state is guaranteed to be live, set
cpu_fp_state::to_save to FP_STATE_CURRENT to indicate that TIF_SVE
must be considered to determine which state needs to be saved.
* Whenever state is modified, it must be saved+flushed prior to
manipulation. The state will be truncated if necessary when it is
saved, and reloading the state will set fp_state::to_save to
FP_STATE_CURRENT, preventing subsequent discarding.
This permits SVE state to be discarded *only* when it is known to have
been truncated (and the non-FPSIMD portions must be zero), and ensures
that SVE state is retained after it is explicitly modified.
For backporting, note that this fix depends on the following commits:
* b2482807fb ("arm64/sme: Optimise SME exit on syscall entry")
* f130ac0ae4 ("arm64: syscall: unmask DAIF earlier for SVCs")
* 929fa99b1215 ("arm64/fpsimd: signal: Always save+flush state early")
Fixes: 8c845e2731 ("arm64/sve: Leave SVE enabled on syscall if we don't context switch")
Fixes: f130ac0ae4 ("arm64: syscall: unmask DAIF earlier for SVCs")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250508132644.1395904-2-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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