3.11.10.14 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me
know.
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From: Anton Kolesov <anton.kole...@synopsys.com>
commit a4b6cb735b25aa84a462a1985e3e43bebaf5beb4 upstream.
This patch adds implementation of GET_THREAD_AREA ptrace request type. This
is required by GDB to debug NPTL applications.
Signed-off-by: Anton Kolesov <anton.kole...@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgu...@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriq...@canonical.com>
---
arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h | 1 +
arch/arc/kernel/ptrace.c | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
b/arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
index 2618cc13ba75..76a7739aab1c 100644
--- a/arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
+++ b/arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
#ifndef _UAPI__ASM_ARC_PTRACE_H
#define _UAPI__ASM_ARC_PTRACE_H
+#define PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA 25
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
/*
diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arc/kernel/ptrace.c
index 5d76706139dd..13b3ffb27a38 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -146,6 +146,10 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request,
pr_debug("REQ=%ld: ADDR =0x%lx, DATA=0x%lx)\n", request, addr, data);
switch (request) {
+ case PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA:
+ ret = put_user(task_thread_info(child)->thr_ptr,
+ (unsigned long __user *)data);
+ break;
default:
ret = ptrace_request(child, request, addr, data);
break;
--
1.9.1
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