[PATCH 4.8 071/140] MIPS: ptrace: Fix regs_return_value for kernel context

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Oct 26 2016 - 09:23:15 EST


4.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 74f1077b5b783e7bf4fa3007cefdc8dbd6c07518 upstream.

Currently regs_return_value always negates reg[2] if it determines
the syscall has failed, but when called in kernel context this check is
invalid and may result in returning a wrong value.

This fixes errors reported by CONFIG_KPROBES_SANITY_TEST

Fixes: d7e7528bcd45 ("Audit: push audit success and retcode into arch ptrace.h")
Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14381/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/mips/include/asm/ptrace.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/ptrace.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/ptrace.h
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static inline int is_syscall_success(str

static inline long regs_return_value(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
- if (is_syscall_success(regs))
+ if (is_syscall_success(regs) || !user_mode(regs))
return regs->regs[2];
else
return -regs->regs[2];