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Date:   Mon, 16 Jul 2018 06:44:23 +0100
From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...s.com>
To:     Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>
CC:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] binfmt_elf: Respect error return from
 `regset->active'

Hi Paul,

> > --- linux-jhogan-test.orig/fs/binfmt_elf.c	2018-03-21 17:14:55.000000000 +0000
> > +++ linux-jhogan-test/fs/binfmt_elf.c	2018-05-09 23:25:50.742255000 +0100
> > @@ -1739,7 +1739,7 @@ static int fill_thread_core_info(struct 
> >  		const struct user_regset *regset = &view->regsets[i];
> >  		do_thread_regset_writeback(t->task, regset);
> >  		if (regset->core_note_type && regset->get &&
> > -		    (!regset->active || regset->active(t->task, regset))) {
> > +		    (!regset->active || regset->active(t->task, regset) > 0)) {
> >  			int ret;
> >  			size_t size = regset_size(t->task, regset);
> >  			void *data = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> > 
> 
> This looks obviously right to me, although I don't think it affects
> anything until commit 25847fb195ae ("powerpc/ptrace: Enable support for
> NT_PPC_CGPR") in v4.8-rc1 & even then not in a harmful way so I'd drop
> the stable tag.

 I'm fine with dropping the tag FWIW.  Thanks for taking care of my patch.

  Maciej

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