[PATCH] MIPS: ptrace: Fix syscall skipping via PTRACE_SYSCALL

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer

Date: Fri Jul 17 2026 - 07:55:20 EST


If tracer wanted to skip a syscall return value was always
overwritten with -ENOSYS. Fix this by checking against original
syscall number and only return -ENOSYS, if it is negative.

Fixes: b6318a903d06 ("MIPS/ptrace: Pick up ptrace/seccomp changed syscalls")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c
index 3f4c94c88124..87102a03b6ea 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1321,8 +1321,12 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request,
*/
asmlinkage long syscall_trace_enter(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
+ long syscall;
+
user_exit();

+ syscall = current_thread_info()->syscall;
+
if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE)) {
if (ptrace_report_syscall_entry(regs))
return -1;
@@ -1342,7 +1346,7 @@ asmlinkage long syscall_trace_enter(struct pt_regs *regs)
* Negative syscall numbers are mistaken for rejected syscalls, but
* won't have had the return value set appropriately, so we do so now.
*/
- if (current_thread_info()->syscall < 0)
+ if (syscall < 0)
syscall_set_return_value(current, regs, -ENOSYS, 0);
return current_thread_info()->syscall;
}
--
2.51.0