Re: [PATCH] MIPS: ptrace: Fix PTRACE_PEEKUSR requests for 64-bit FGRs

From: James Hogan
Date: Thu May 24 2018 - 08:07:27 EST


On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 04:39:58PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Use 64-bit accesses for 64-bit floating-point general registers with
> PTRACE_PEEKUSR, removing the truncation of their upper halves in the
> FR=1 mode, caused by commit bbd426f542cb ("MIPS: Simplify FP context
> access"), which inadvertently switched them to using 32-bit accesses.
>
> The PTRACE_POKEUSR side is fine as it's never been broken and continues
> using 64-bit accesses.
>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.19+

should that be 3.15+?

Cheers
James

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