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arm64/ptrace: Avoid uninitialised struct padding in fpr_set()

This patch adds an explicit __reserved[] field to user_fpsimd_state
to replace what was previously unnamed padding.

This ensures that data in this region are propagated across
assignment rather than being left possibly uninitialised at the
destination.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.7.x-
Fixes: 60ffc30d5652 ("arm64: Exception handling")
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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Dave Martin and committed by
Catalin Marinas
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arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
··· 77 77 __uint128_t vregs[32]; 78 78 __u32 fpsr; 79 79 __u32 fpcr; 80 + __u32 __reserved[2]; 80 81 }; 81 82 82 83 struct user_hwdebug_state {