arm64/gcs: Flush the GCS locking state on exec
authorMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:48:45 +0000 (00:48 +0000)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:06:40 +0000 (12:06 +0000)
When we exec a new task we forget to flush the set of locked GCS mode bits.
Since we do flush the rest of the state this means that if GCS is locked
the new task will be unable to enable GCS, it will be locked as being
disabled. Add the expected flush.

Fixes: fc84bc5378a8 ("arm64/gcs: Context switch GCS state for EL0")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 6.13.x
Reported-by: Yury Khrustalev <Yury.Khrustalev@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Yury Khrustalev <yury.khrustalev@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arch/arm64/kernel/process.c

index fba7ca1..4895549 100644 (file)
@@ -292,6 +292,7 @@ static void flush_gcs(void)
        current->thread.gcs_base = 0;
        current->thread.gcs_size = 0;
        current->thread.gcs_el0_mode = 0;
+       current->thread.gcs_el0_locked = 0;
        write_sysreg_s(GCSCRE0_EL1_nTR, SYS_GCSCRE0_EL1);
        write_sysreg_s(0, SYS_GCSPR_EL0);
 }