[PATCH 4.4 06/20] ARM: 8643/3: arm/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Feb 13 2017 - 08:10:45 EST


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

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From: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx>

commit 228dbbfb5d77f8e047b2a1d78da14b7158433027 upstream.

Ensure that if userspace supplies insufficient data to
PTRACE_SETREGSET to fill all the registers, the thread's old
registers are preserved.

Fixes: 5be6f62b0059 ("ARM: 6883/1: ptrace: Migrate to regsets framework")
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ static int gpr_set(struct task_struct *t
const void *kbuf, const void __user *ubuf)
{
int ret;
- struct pt_regs newregs;
+ struct pt_regs newregs = *task_pt_regs(target);

ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf,
&newregs,