From: Sergey Matyukevich <geomatsi@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:09:56 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: riscv: vector: init vector context with proper vlenb
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ef3ff40346db8476a9ef7269fc9d1837e7243c40;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git

riscv: vector: init vector context with proper vlenb

The vstate in thread_struct is zeroed when the vector context is
initialized. That includes read-only register vlenb, which holds
the vector register length in bytes. Zeroed state persists until
mstatus.VS becomes 'dirty' and a context switch saves the actual
hardware values.

This can expose the zero vlenb value to the user-space in early
debug scenarios, e.g. when ptrace attaches to a traced process
early, before any vector instruction except the first one was
executed.

Fix this by specifying proper vlenb on vector context init.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Matyukevich <geomatsi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Chiu <andybnac@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andy Chiu <andybnac@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251214163537.1054292-3-geomatsi@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vector.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/vector.c
index 3ed071dab9d83..b112166d51e9f 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vector.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vector.c
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ bool insn_is_vector(u32 insn_buf)
 	return false;
 }
 
-static int riscv_v_thread_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *cache,
-				 struct __riscv_v_ext_state *ctx)
+static int riscv_v_thread_ctx_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cache,
+				    struct __riscv_v_ext_state *ctx)
 {
 	void *datap;
 
@@ -122,13 +122,15 @@ static int riscv_v_thread_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *cache,
 
 	ctx->datap = datap;
 	memset(ctx, 0, offsetof(struct __riscv_v_ext_state, datap));
+	ctx->vlenb = riscv_v_vsize / 32;
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
 void riscv_v_thread_alloc(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_V_PREEMPTIVE
-	riscv_v_thread_zalloc(riscv_v_kernel_cachep, &tsk->thread.kernel_vstate);
+	riscv_v_thread_ctx_alloc(riscv_v_kernel_cachep, &tsk->thread.kernel_vstate);
 #endif
 }
 
@@ -214,12 +216,14 @@ bool riscv_v_first_use_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	 * context where VS has been off. So, try to allocate the user's V
 	 * context and resume execution.
 	 */
-	if (riscv_v_thread_zalloc(riscv_v_user_cachep, &current->thread.vstate)) {
+	if (riscv_v_thread_ctx_alloc(riscv_v_user_cachep, &current->thread.vstate)) {
 		force_sig(SIGBUS);
 		return true;
 	}
+
 	riscv_v_vstate_on(regs);
 	riscv_v_vstate_set_restore(current, regs);
+
 	return true;
 }