metag/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write
authorDave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:10:55 +0000 (15:10 +0100)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 29 Mar 2017 15:54:17 +0000 (08:54 -0700)
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>
Acked-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c

index 7563628822bdf638a708816bf4abe8ccb1b2a4db..ae659ba619487d67be09a8cd792f957be1709fae 100644 (file)
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ static int metag_tls_set(struct task_struct *target,
                        const void *kbuf, const void __user *ubuf)
 {
        int ret;
-       void __user *tls;
+       void __user *tls = target->thread.tls_ptr;
 
        ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, &tls, 0, -1);
        if (ret)