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arm64/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write

Ensure that if userspace supplies insufficient data to
PTRACE_SETREGSET to fill all the registers, the thread's old
registers are preserved.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.19.x-
Fixes: 766a85d7bc5d ("arm64: ptrace: add NT_ARM_SYSTEM_CALL regset")
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Dave Martin 8 years ago
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      arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c

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arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c

@@ -677,7 +677,8 @@ static int system_call_set(struct task_struct *target,
 			   unsigned int pos, unsigned int count,
 			   const void *kbuf, const void __user *ubuf)
 {
-	int syscallno, ret;
+	int syscallno = task_pt_regs(target)->syscallno;
+	int ret;
 
 	ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, &syscallno, 0, -1);
 	if (ret)