tile/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write
authorDave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Fri, 6 Jan 2017 17:54:51 +0000 (17:54 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 1 Feb 2017 07:30:52 +0000 (08:30 +0100)
commit fd7c99142d77dc4a851879a66715abf12a3193fb upstream.

Ensure that if userspace supplies insufficient data to
PTRACE_SETREGSET to fill all the registers, the thread's old
registers are preserved.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/tile/kernel/ptrace.c

index bdc126faf7412f4b401e0fed17c694155b498a6b..6239aa155f6d324f1d100ae87a661f1261fba172 100644 (file)
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static int tile_gpr_set(struct task_struct *target,
                          const void *kbuf, const void __user *ubuf)
 {
        int ret;
-       struct pt_regs regs;
+       struct pt_regs regs = *task_pt_regs(target);
 
        ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, &regs, 0,
                                 sizeof(regs));