4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Dave Martin <[email protected]> commit a672401c00f82e4e19704aff361d9bad18003714 upstream. Ensure that if userspace supplies insufficient data to PTRACE_SETREGSET to fill all the registers, the thread's old registers are preserved. Fixes: 5d220ff9420f ("arm64: Better native ptrace support for compat tasks") Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <[email protected]> Acked-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ static int compat_tls_set(struct task_st const void __user *ubuf) { int ret; - compat_ulong_t tls; + compat_ulong_t tls = target->thread.tp_value; ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, &tls, 0, -1); if (ret)
