From 228dbbfb5d77f8e047b2a1d78da14b7158433027 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Martin Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 17:11:56 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: 8643/3: arm/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write Ensure that if userspace supplies insufficient data to PTRACE_SETREGSET to fill all the registers, the thread's old registers are preserved. Cc: # 3.0.x- Fixes: 5be6f62b0059 ("ARM: 6883/1: ptrace: Migrate to regsets framework") Signed-off-by: Dave Martin Acked-by: Russell King Signed-off-by: Russell King --- arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c index ce131ed5939d..ae738a6319f6 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ static int gpr_set(struct task_struct *target, const void *kbuf, const void __user *ubuf) { int ret; - struct pt_regs newregs; + struct pt_regs newregs = *task_pt_regs(target); ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, &newregs, -- 2.20.1