2.6.26 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Roland McGrath commit 45fdc3a7624a4a48185a04ae0abab5f9793d8952 upstream ptrace has always returned only -EIO for all failures to access registers. The user_regset calls are allowed to return a more meaningful variety of errors. The REGSET_XFP calls use -ENODEV for !cpu_has_fxsr hardware. Make ptrace return the traditional -EIO instead of the error code from the user_regset call. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kernel/i387.c | 4 ++-- arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ int xfpregs_get(struct task_struct *targ int ret; if (!cpu_has_fxsr) - return -EIO; + return -ENODEV; ret = init_fpu(target); if (ret) @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ int xfpregs_set(struct task_struct *targ int ret; if (!cpu_has_fxsr) - return -EIO; + return -ENODEV; ret = init_fpu(target); if (ret) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -943,13 +943,13 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *chi return copy_regset_to_user(child, &user_x86_32_view, REGSET_XFP, 0, sizeof(struct user_fxsr_struct), - datap); + datap) ? -EIO : 0; case PTRACE_SETFPXREGS: /* Set the child extended FPU state. */ return copy_regset_from_user(child, &user_x86_32_view, REGSET_XFP, 0, sizeof(struct user_fxsr_struct), - datap); + datap) ? -EIO : 0; #endif #if defined CONFIG_X86_32 || defined CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/