From: Dave Martin <dave.mar...@arm.com>
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 <dave.mar...@arm.com>
Acked-by: James Hogan <james.ho...@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w...@1wt.eu>
---
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 7563628..ae659ba 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)
--
2.8.0.rc2.1.gbe9624a
