Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754693AbdDJPeu (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2017 11:34:50 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:38091 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754508AbdDJPep (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2017 11:34:45 -0400 X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER SECTION, Duplicate header field: "References" From: Jiri Slaby To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Martin , Linus Torvalds , Jiri Slaby Subject: [PATCH 3.12 106/142] metag/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:33:07 +0200 Message-Id: X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.12.2 In-Reply-To: References: In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1092 Lines: 34 From: Dave Martin 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit a78ce80d2c9178351b34d78fec805140c29c193e 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 Acked-by: James Hogan Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby --- arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c index 7563628822bd..ae659ba61948 100644 --- a/arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -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) -- 2.12.2