From: Dave Martin <[email protected]> commit a78ce80d2c9178351b34d78fec805140c29c193e upstream.
Ensure that if userspace supplies insufficient data to PTRACE_SETREGSET to fill all the registers, the thread's old registers are preserved. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <[email protected]> Acked-by: James Hogan <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> --- arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c index 7563628..ae659ba 100644 --- a/arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ static int metag_tls_set(struct task_struct *target, const void *kbuf, const void __user *ubuf) { int ret; - void __user *tls; + void __user *tls = target->thread.tls_ptr; ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, &tls, 0, -1); if (ret) -- 2.8.0.rc2.1.gbe9624a
