This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm64/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: arm64-ptrace-preserve-previous-registers-for-short-regset-write.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 9a17b876b573441bfb3387ad55d98bf7184daf9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 16:25:20 +0000 Subject: arm64/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write From: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> commit 9a17b876b573441bfb3387ad55d98bf7184daf9d upstream. Ensure that if userspace supplies insufficient data to PTRACE_SETREGSET to fill all the registers, the thread's old registers are preserved. Fixes: 478fcb2cdb23 ("arm64: Debugging support") Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ static int gpr_set(struct task_struct *t const void *kbuf, const void __user *ubuf) { int ret; - struct user_pt_regs newregs; + struct user_pt_regs newregs = task_pt_regs(target)->user_regs; ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, &newregs, 0, -1); if (ret) @@ -625,7 +625,8 @@ static int fpr_set(struct task_struct *t const void *kbuf, const void __user *ubuf) { int ret; - struct user_fpsimd_state newstate; + struct user_fpsimd_state newstate = + target->thread.fpsimd_state.user_fpsimd; ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, &newstate, 0, -1); if (ret) @@ -649,7 +650,7 @@ static int tls_set(struct task_struct *t const void *kbuf, const void __user *ubuf) { int ret; - unsigned long tls; + unsigned long tls = target->thread.tp_value; ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, &tls, 0, -1); if (ret) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx are queue-4.9/arm64-ptrace-preserve-previous-registers-for-short-regset-write-3.patch queue-4.9/arm64-ptrace-reject-attempts-to-set-incomplete-hardware-breakpoint-fields.patch queue-4.9/powerpc-ptrace-preserve-previous-tm-fprs-vsrs-on-short-regset-write.patch queue-4.9/arm64-ptrace-preserve-previous-registers-for-short-regset-write-2.patch queue-4.9/arm64-ptrace-avoid-uninitialised-struct-padding-in-fpr_set.patch queue-4.9/arm64-ptrace-preserve-previous-registers-for-short-regset-write.patch queue-4.9/powerpc-ptrace-preserve-previous-fprs-vsrs-on-short-regset-write.patch -- 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