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arm64: Clear out any singlestep state on a ptrace detach operation

Make sure to clear out any ptrace singlestep state when a ptrace(2)
PTRACE_DETACH call is made on arm64 systems.

Otherwise, the previously ptraced task will die off with a SIGTRAP
signal if the debugger just previously singlestepped the ptraced task.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John Blackwood <john.blackwood@ccur.com>
[will: added comment to justify why this is in the arch code]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
John Blackwood 9 years ago
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      arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c

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arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c

@@ -58,6 +58,12 @@
  */
 void ptrace_disable(struct task_struct *child)
 {
+	/*
+	 * This would be better off in core code, but PTRACE_DETACH has
+	 * grown its fair share of arch-specific worts and changing it
+	 * is likely to cause regressions on obscure architectures.
+	 */
+	user_disable_single_step(child);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT