Return -EINVAL for the bad size and for unrecognized NT_* type in ptrace_regset() instead of -EIO. Also update the comments for this ptrace interface with more clarifications. Requested-by: Roland McGrath Requested-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha --- include/linux/ptrace.h | 5 +++++ kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: tip/kernel/ptrace.c =================================================================== --- tip.orig/kernel/ptrace.c +++ tip/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ static int ptrace_regset(struct task_str int regset_no; if (!regset || (kiov->iov_len % regset->size) != 0) - return -EIO; + return -EINVAL; regset_no = regset - view->regsets; kiov->iov_len = min(kiov->iov_len, Index: tip/include/linux/ptrace.h =================================================================== --- tip.orig/include/linux/ptrace.h +++ tip/include/linux/ptrace.h @@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ /* * Generic ptrace interface that exports the architecture specific regsets * using the corresponding NT_* types (which are also used in the core dump). + * Please note that the NT_PRSTATUS note type in a core dump contains a full + * 'struct elf_prstatus'. But the user_regset for NT_PRSTATUS contains just the + * elf_gregset_t that is the pr_reg field of 'struct elf_prstatus'. For all the + * other user_regset flavors, the user_regset layout and the ELF core dump note + * payload are exactly the same layout. * * This interface usage is as follows: * struct iovec iov = { buf, len}; -- 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/