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authorAlexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>2013-02-14 17:44:23 +0000
committerMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>2013-04-18 13:03:57 +1000
commitee4a3916614829914830bc4371358f4d4a63c4d9 (patch)
treeba1c65ba0a58933b8d9d43fe0374bdbc775338ad /arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
parent3cc33d50f52521760da29ebd9db239741da7f21a (diff)
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powerpc: fixing ptrace_get_reg to return an error
Currently ptrace_get_reg returns error as a value what make impossible to tell whether it is a correct value or error code. The patch adds a parameter which points to the real return data and returns an error code. As get_user_msr() never fails and it is used in multiple places so it has not been changed by this patch. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c29
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
index f9b30c68ba47..10ade3c0c88a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -180,9 +180,10 @@ static int set_user_msr(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long msr)
}
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
-static unsigned long get_user_dscr(struct task_struct *task)
+static int get_user_dscr(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long *data)
{
- return task->thread.dscr;
+ *data = task->thread.dscr;
+ return 0;
}
static int set_user_dscr(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long dscr)
@@ -192,7 +193,7 @@ static int set_user_dscr(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long dscr)
return 0;
}
#else
-static unsigned long get_user_dscr(struct task_struct *task)
+static int get_user_dscr(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long *data)
{
return -EIO;
}
@@ -216,19 +217,23 @@ static int set_user_trap(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long trap)
/*
* Get contents of register REGNO in task TASK.
*/
-unsigned long ptrace_get_reg(struct task_struct *task, int regno)
+int ptrace_get_reg(struct task_struct *task, int regno, unsigned long *data)
{
- if (task->thread.regs == NULL)
+ if ((task->thread.regs == NULL) || !data)
return -EIO;
- if (regno == PT_MSR)
- return get_user_msr(task);
+ if (regno == PT_MSR) {
+ *data = get_user_msr(task);
+ return 0;
+ }
if (regno == PT_DSCR)
- return get_user_dscr(task);
+ return get_user_dscr(task, data);
- if (regno < (sizeof(struct pt_regs) / sizeof(unsigned long)))
- return ((unsigned long *)task->thread.regs)[regno];
+ if (regno < (sizeof(struct pt_regs) / sizeof(unsigned long))) {
+ *data = ((unsigned long *)task->thread.regs)[regno];
+ return 0;
+ }
return -EIO;
}
@@ -1560,7 +1565,9 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request,
CHECK_FULL_REGS(child->thread.regs);
if (index < PT_FPR0) {
- tmp = ptrace_get_reg(child, (int) index);
+ ret = ptrace_get_reg(child, (int) index, &tmp);
+ if (ret)
+ break;
} else {
unsigned int fpidx = index - PT_FPR0;