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| author | Frederic Weisbecker | 2009-10-18 01:09:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Frederic Weisbecker | 2009-10-18 01:12:33 +0200 |
| commit | 0f8f86c7bdd1c954fbe153af437a0d91a6c5721a (patch) | |
| tree | 94a8d419a470a4f9852ca397bb9bbe48db92ff5c /arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | |
| parent | Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints (diff) | |
| parent | perf tools: Move dereference after NULL test (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'perf/core' into perf/hw-breakpoint
Conflicts:
kernel/Makefile
kernel/trace/Makefile
kernel/trace/trace.h
samples/Makefile
Merge reason: We need to be uptodate with the perf events development
branch because we plan to rewrite the breakpoints API on top of
perf events.
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c index 113b8927c822..267cb85b479c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -312,16 +312,6 @@ static int putreg(struct task_struct *child, return set_flags(child, value); #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 - /* - * Orig_ax is really just a flag with small positive and - * negative values, so make sure to always sign-extend it - * from 32 bits so that it works correctly regardless of - * whether we come from a 32-bit environment or not. - */ - case offsetof(struct user_regs_struct, orig_ax): - value = (long) (s32) value; - break; - case offsetof(struct user_regs_struct,fs_base): if (value >= TASK_SIZE_OF(child)) return -EIO; @@ -1177,10 +1167,15 @@ static int putreg32(struct task_struct *child, unsigned regno, u32 value) case offsetof(struct user32, regs.orig_eax): /* - * Sign-extend the value so that orig_eax = -1 - * causes (long)orig_ax < 0 tests to fire correctly. + * A 32-bit debugger setting orig_eax means to restore + * the state of the task restarting a 32-bit syscall. + * Make sure we interpret the -ERESTART* codes correctly + * in case the task is not actually still sitting at the + * exit from a 32-bit syscall with TS_COMPAT still set. */ - regs->orig_ax = (long) (s32) value; + regs->orig_ax = value; + if (syscall_get_nr(child, regs) >= 0) + task_thread_info(child)->status |= TS_COMPAT; break; case offsetof(struct user32, regs.eflags): |