3.16.42-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dave Martin <dave.mar...@arm.com>

commit fd7c99142d77dc4a851879a66715abf12a3193fb 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>
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetc...@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>
---
 arch/tile/kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/tile/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/tile/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static int tile_gpr_set(struct task_stru
                          const void *kbuf, const void __user *ubuf)
 {
        int ret;
-       struct pt_regs regs;
+       struct pt_regs regs = *task_pt_regs(target);
 
        ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, &regs, 0,
                                 sizeof(regs));

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