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Subject[tip:x86/ptrace] ptrace: Fix ptrace_regset() comments and diagnose errors specifically
Commit-ID:  c6a0dd7ec6fb2d4927979ed4dc562fc5c122d826
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/c6a0dd7ec6fb2d4927979ed4dc562fc5c122d826
Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:51:32 -0800
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CommitDate: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:45:26 -0800

ptrace: Fix ptrace_regset() comments and diagnose errors specifically

Return -EINVAL for the bad size and for unrecognized NT_* type in
ptrace_regset() instead of -EIO.

Also update the comments for this ptrace interface with more clarifications.

Requested-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Requested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100222225240.397523600@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
---
include/linux/ptrace.h | 5 +++++
kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h
index dbfa821..c5eab89 100644
--- a/include/linux/ptrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptrace.h
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@
/*
* Generic ptrace interface that exports the architecture specific regsets
* using the corresponding NT_* types (which are also used in the core dump).
+ * Please note that the NT_PRSTATUS note type in a core dump contains a full
+ * 'struct elf_prstatus'. But the user_regset for NT_PRSTATUS contains just the
+ * elf_gregset_t that is the pr_reg field of 'struct elf_prstatus'. For all the
+ * other user_regset flavors, the user_regset layout and the ELF core dump note
+ * payload are exactly the same layout.
*
* This interface usage is as follows:
* struct iovec iov = { buf, len};
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 13b4554..42ad8ae 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ static int ptrace_regset(struct task_struct *task, int req, unsigned int type,
int regset_no;

if (!regset || (kiov->iov_len % regset->size) != 0)
- return -EIO;
+ return -EINVAL;

regset_no = regset - view->regsets;
kiov->iov_len = min(kiov->iov_len,

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