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: Willy Tarreau <w...@1wt.eu> --- arch/tile/kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/tile/kernel/ptrace.c index 0f83ed4..d0dac73 100644 --- a/arch/tile/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/tile/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static int tile_gpr_set(struct task_struct *target, 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, ®s, 0, sizeof(regs)); -- 2.8.0.rc2.1.gbe9624a