queue/metag-ptrace-Preserve-previous-registers-for-short-r.patch

From ccc23d7e3153daa7f912d11a01e7da50848f2d70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:10:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] metag/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset
 write

commit a78ce80d2c9178351b34d78fec805140c29c193e 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@arm.com>
Acked-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

diff --git a/arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c
index 7563628822bd..ae659ba61948 100644
--- a/arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ static int metag_tls_set(struct task_struct *target,
 			const void *kbuf, const void __user *ubuf)
 {
 	int ret;
-	void __user *tls;
+	void __user *tls = target->thread.tls_ptr;
 
 	ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, &tls, 0, -1);
 	if (ret)
-- 
2.12.0