MIPS: Consistently handle buffer counter with PTRACE_SETREGSET
authorMaciej W. Rozycki <macro@mips.com>
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:53:14 +0000 (22:53 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 08:45:18 +0000 (09:45 +0100)
commit323429be3b2f464b2e51f0c544e3dd6de4dadb79
treee029313d12aeba9fddb592fccd7b897d163d55c8
parenta38f387c48c3b364c927e9d983b116824820ed38
MIPS: Consistently handle buffer counter with PTRACE_SETREGSET

commit 80b3ffce0196ea50068885d085ff981e4b8396f4 upstream.

Update commit d614fd58a283 ("mips/ptrace: Preserve previous registers
for short regset write") bug and consistently consume all data supplied
to `fpr_set_msa' with the ptrace(2) PTRACE_SETREGSET request, such that
a zero data buffer counter is returned where insufficient data has been
given to fill a whole number of FP general registers.

In reality this is not going to happen, as the caller is supposed to
only supply data covering a whole number of registers and it is verified
in `ptrace_regset' and again asserted in `fpr_set', however structuring
code such that the presence of trailing partial FP general register data
causes `fpr_set_msa' to return with a non-zero data buffer counter makes
it appear that this trailing data will be used if there are subsequent
writes made to FP registers, which is going to be the case with the FCSR
once the missing write to that register has been fixed.

Fixes: d614fd58a283 ("mips/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@mips.com>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@mips.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <Paul.Burton@mips.com>
Cc: Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>
Cc: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17927/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c