ARM: 8643/3: arm/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write

Ensure that if userspace supplies insufficient data to
PTRACE_SETREGSET to fill all the registers, the thread's old
registers are preserved.

Cc: <[email protected]> # 3.0.x-
Fixes: 5be6f62b0059 ("ARM: 6883/1: ptrace: Migrate to regsets framework")
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c
index ce131ed5939d5ff86054afc3a14de7cb51225a79..ae738a6319f6a341c05a3c6a2dee2da30aa02a40 100644 (file)
--- 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,