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Commit 07e1d88a authored by Andy Lutomirski's avatar Andy Lutomirski Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/fsgsbase/64: Fix ptrace() to read the FS/GS base accurately



On 64-bit kernels ptrace can read the FS/GS base using the register access
APIs (PTRACE_PEEKUSER, etc.) or PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL.

Make both of these mechanisms return the actual FS/GS base.

This will improve debuggability by providing the correct information
to ptracer such as GDB.

[ chang: Rebased and revised patch description. ]
[ mingo: Revised the changelog some more. ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Markus T Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1537312139-5580-2-git-send-email-chang.seok.bae@intel.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent edfbeecd
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