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authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>2009-09-22 19:58:58 -0700
committerRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>2009-09-22 22:46:48 -0700
commit08ff18e299b1a1c91f4911fe9f35c4550218c73f (patch)
tree9f4c180bf7dfc358727fffdcc1cbe9f805b526bd /arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
parent18c1e2c80d92adca50ffc654617639a4aa35f29c (diff)
x86: ptrace: do not sign-extend orig_ax on write
The high 32 bits of orig_ax will be ignored when it matters, so don't fiddle them when setting it. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c19
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
index 8d7d5c9c1be..52222fab99f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -325,16 +325,6 @@ static int putreg(struct task_struct *child,
return set_flags(child, value);
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
- /*
- * Orig_ax is really just a flag with small positive and
- * negative values, so make sure to always sign-extend it
- * from 32 bits so that it works correctly regardless of
- * whether we come from a 32-bit environment or not.
- */
- case offsetof(struct user_regs_struct, orig_ax):
- value = (long) (s32) value;
- break;
-
case offsetof(struct user_regs_struct,fs_base):
if (value >= TASK_SIZE_OF(child))
return -EIO;
@@ -1121,17 +1111,10 @@ static int putreg32(struct task_struct *child, unsigned regno, u32 value)
R32(esi, si);
R32(ebp, bp);
R32(eax, ax);
+ R32(orig_eax, orig_ax);
R32(eip, ip);
R32(esp, sp);
- case offsetof(struct user32, regs.orig_eax):
- /*
- * Sign-extend the value so that orig_eax = -1
- * causes (long)orig_ax < 0 tests to fire correctly.
- */
- regs->orig_ax = (long) (s32) value;
- break;
-
case offsetof(struct user32, regs.eflags):
return set_flags(child, value);