4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> commit 7195ee3120d878259e8d94a5d9f808116f34d5ea upstream. It's not clear what behaviour is sensible when doing partial write of NT_METAG_RPIPE, so just don't bother. This patch assumes that userspace will never rely on a partial SETREGSET in this case, since it's not clear what should happen anyway. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -253,6 +253,8 @@ int metag_rp_state_copyin(struct pt_regs unsigned long long *ptr; int ret, i; + if (count < 4*13) + return -EINVAL; /* Read the entire pipeline before making any changes */ ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, &rp, 0, 4*13);