From: Yandong Zhao <yandong77...@gmail.com>

It does not matter if the caller of may_use_simd() migrates to
another cpu after the call, but it is still important that the
kernel_neon_busy percpu instance that is read matches the cpu the
task is running on at the time of the read.

This means that raw_cpu_read() is not sufficient.  kernel_neon_busy
may appear true if the caller migrates during the execution of
raw_cpu_read() and the next task to be scheduled in on the initial
cpu calls kernel_neon_begin().

This patch replaces raw_cpu_read() with this_cpu_read() to protect
against this race.

Fixes: cb84d11e1625 ("arm64: neon: Remove support for nested or hardirq 
kernel-mode NEON")
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <dave.mar...@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yandong Zhao <yandong77...@gmail.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/simd.h | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/simd.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/simd.h
index fa8b3fe..784a8c2 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/simd.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/simd.h
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@
 static __must_check inline bool may_use_simd(void)
 {
        /*
-        * The raw_cpu_read() is racy if called with preemption enabled.
+        * The this_cpu_read() is racy if called with preemption enabled,
+        * since the task may subsequently migrate to another CPU.
         * This is not a bug: kernel_neon_busy is only set when
         * preemption is disabled, so we cannot migrate to another CPU
         * while it is set, nor can we migrate to a CPU where it is set.
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ static __must_check inline bool may_use_simd(void)
         * false.
         */
        return !in_irq() && !irqs_disabled() && !in_nmi() &&
-               !raw_cpu_read(kernel_neon_busy);
+               !this_cpu_read(kernel_neon_busy);
 }
 
 #else /* ! CONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON */
-- 
1.9.1

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