From: Dave Martin Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 16:25:22 +0000 (+0000) Subject: arm64/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a672401c00f82e4e19704aff361d9bad18003714;p=linux-beck.git arm64/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write Ensure that if userspace supplies insufficient data to PTRACE_SETREGSET to fill all the registers, the thread's old registers are preserved. Cc: # 4.3.x- Fixes: 5d220ff9420f ("arm64: Better native ptrace support for compat tasks") Signed-off-by: Dave Martin Acked-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas --- diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c index ead36d5fad6d..91c4719dfc00 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ static int compat_tls_set(struct task_struct *target, 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)