[patch 1/3] ptrace: fix ptrace_regset() comments and diagnose errors specifically

[Suresh Siddha]

Return -EINVAL for the bad size and for unrecognized NT_* type in
ptrace_regset() instead of -EIO.

Also update the comments for this ptrace interface with more clarifications.

Requested-by: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx>
Requested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/ptrace.h |    5 +++++
 kernel/ptrace.c        |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: tip/kernel/ptrace.c
===================================================================
--- tip.orig/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ tip/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ static int ptrace_regset(struct task_str
 	int regset_no;
 
 	if (!regset || (kiov->iov_len % regset->size) != 0)
-		return -EIO;
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	regset_no = regset - view->regsets;
 	kiov->iov_len = min(kiov->iov_len,
Index: tip/include/linux/ptrace.h
===================================================================
--- tip.orig/include/linux/ptrace.h
+++ tip/include/linux/ptrace.h
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@
 /*
  * Generic ptrace interface that exports the architecture specific regsets
  * using the corresponding NT_* types (which are also used in the core dump).
+ * Please note that the NT_PRSTATUS note type in a core dump contains a full
+ * 'struct elf_prstatus'. But the user_regset for NT_PRSTATUS contains just the
+ * elf_gregset_t that is the pr_reg field of 'struct elf_prstatus'. For all the
+ * other user_regset flavors, the user_regset layout and the ELF core dump note
+ * payload are exactly the same layout.
  *
  * This interface usage is as follows:
  *	struct iovec iov = { buf, len};


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