From: Dave Martin Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 16:11:56 +0000 (+0100) Subject: ARM: 8643/3: arm/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write X-Git-Tag: v3.10.106~139 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fcd0b4411d7b0ec70560bf4797e7ebc5b5be6aa8;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git ARM: 8643/3: arm/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write 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 Acked-by: Russell King Signed-off-by: Russell King Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau --- diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c index 4e2110d48c41b..dfdd683d373e6 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ static int gpr_set(struct task_struct *target, 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,