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Commit c1688707 authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by Catalin Marinas
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arm64: ptrace: change fs when passing kernel pointer to regset code



Our compat PTRACE_POKEUSR implementation simply passes the user data to
regset_copy_from_user after some simple range checking. Unfortunately,
the data in question has already been copied to the kernel stack by this
point, so the subsequent access_ok check fails and the ptrace request
returns -EFAULT. This causes problems tracing fork() with older versions
of strace.

This patch briefly changes the fs to KERNEL_DS, so that the access_ok
check passes even with a kernel address.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent 2d5a5612
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