Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 2 authors, 2021-03-27

Re: [PATCH 1/4] arm64: expose orig_x0 in the user_pt_regs structure

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date: 2021-03-26 18:29:32
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On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 03:50:50PM -0700, Andrei Vagin wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
index 758ae984ff97..3c118c5b0893 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ struct user_pt_regs {
 	__u64		sp;
 	__u64		pc;
 	__u64		pstate;
+	__u64		orig_x0;
 };
That's a UAPI change, likely to go wrong. For example, a
ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET, pid, REGSET_GPR, data) would write past the end
of an old struct user_pt_regs in the debugger.

-- 
Catalin

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