4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Michael Neuling <mikey@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 4f7c06e26ec9cf7fe9f0c54dc90079b6a4f4b2c3 upstream. In commit e2a800beaca1 ("powerpc/hw_brk: Fix off by one error when validating DAWR region end") we fixed setting the DAWR end point to its max value via PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG. Unfortunately we broke PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG when setting a 512 byte aligned breakpoint. PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG currently sets the length of the breakpoint to zero (memset() in hw_breakpoint_init()). This worked with arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings() before the above patch was applied but is now broken if the breakpoint is 512byte aligned. This sets the length of the breakpoint to 8 bytes when using PTRACE_SET_DEBUGREG. Fixes: e2a800beaca1 ("powerpc/hw_brk: Fix off by one error when validating DAWR region end") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v3.11+ Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -1004,6 +1004,7 @@ static int ptrace_set_debugreg(struct ta /* Create a new breakpoint request if one doesn't exist already */ hw_breakpoint_init(&attr); attr.bp_addr = hw_brk.address; + attr.bp_len = 8; arch_bp_generic_fields(hw_brk.type, &attr.bp_type);