From: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> Ensure that if userspace supplies insufficient data to PTRACE_SETREGSET to fill all the registers, the thread's old registers are preserved. Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.3.x- Fixes: 5d220ff9420f ("arm64: Better native ptrace support for compat tasks") Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@xxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c index ead36d5..91c4719 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ static int compat_tls_set(struct task_struct *target, const void __user *ubuf) { int ret; - compat_ulong_t tls; + compat_ulong_t tls = target->thread.tp_value; ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, &tls, 0, -1); if (ret) -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html