Re: [PATCH] arm64/ptrace: Don't flush ZA/ZT storage when writing ZA via ptrace

[Will Deacon]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 18:42:38 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> When writing ZA we currently unconditionally flush the buffer used to store
> it as part of ensuring that it is allocated. Since this buffer is shared
> with ZT0 this means that a write to ZA when PSTATE.ZA is already set will
> corrupt the value of ZT0 on a SME2 system. Fix this by only flushing the
> backing storage if PSTATE.ZA was not previously set.
> 
> This will mean that short or failed writes may leave stale data in the
> buffer, this seems as correct as our current behaviour and unlikely to be
> something that userspace will rely on.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/core), thanks!

[1/1] arm64/ptrace: Don't flush ZA/ZT storage when writing ZA via ptrace
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/b7c510d04904

Cheers,
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Will

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