[PATCH] powerpc: user_regset PTRACE_SETREGS regression fix

Roland McGrath roland at redhat.com
Thu Mar 13 19:25:35 EST 2008


The PTRACE_SETREGS request was only recently added on powerpc,
and gdb does not use it.  So it slipped through without getting
all the testing it should have had.

The user_regset changes had a simple bug in storing to all of
the 32-bit general registers block on 64-bit kernels.  This bug
only comes up with PTRACE_SETREGS, not PPC_PTRACE_SETREGS.
It causes a BUG_ON to hit, so this fix needs to go in ASAP.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c |   10 ++++++++--
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
index 7673e98..2a9fe97 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -530,15 +530,21 @@ static int gpr32_set(struct task_struct *target,
 		--count;
 	}
 
-	if (kbuf)
+	if (kbuf) {
 		for (; count > 0 && pos <= PT_MAX_PUT_REG; --count)
 			regs[pos++] = *k++;
-	else
+		for (; count > 0 && pos < PT_TRAP; --count, ++pos)
+			++k;
+	} else {
 		for (; count > 0 && pos <= PT_MAX_PUT_REG; --count) {
 			if (__get_user(reg, u++))
 				return -EFAULT;
 			regs[pos++] = reg;
 		}
+		for (; count > 0 && pos < PT_TRAP; --count, ++pos)
+			if (__get_user(reg, u++))
+				return -EFAULT;
+	}
 
 	if (count > 0 && pos == PT_TRAP) {
 		if (kbuf)



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