3.16.42-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> commit fd7c99142d77dc4a851879a66715abf12a3193fb upstream. Ensure that if userspace supplies insufficient data to PTRACE_SETREGSET to fill all the registers, the thread's old registers are preserved. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/tile/kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/tile/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/tile/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static int tile_gpr_set(struct task_stru const void *kbuf, const void __user *ubuf) { int ret; - struct pt_regs regs; + struct pt_regs regs = *task_pt_regs(target); ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, ®s, 0, sizeof(regs));