From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754662AbdDJPes (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2017 11:34:48 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:38438 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754631AbdDJPep (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 3.12 105/142] sparc/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:33:06 +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 From: Dave Martin 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit d3805c546b275c8cc7d40f759d029ae92c7175f2 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: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby --- arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace_64.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace_64.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace_64.c index 773c1f2983ce..89297b7c6261 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace_64.c +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace_64.c @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ static int genregs64_set(struct task_struct *target, } if (!ret) { - unsigned long y; + unsigned long y = regs->y; ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, &y, -- 2.12.2