4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: James Hogan <james.ho...@imgtec.com>

commit 4f32a39d49b25eaa66d2420f1f03d371ea4cd906 upstream.

The sys_exit trace event takes a single return value for the system
call, which MIPS passes the value of the $v0 (result) register, however
MIPS returns positive error codes in $v0 with $a3 specifying that $v0
contains an error code. As a result erroring system calls are traced
returning positive error numbers that can't always be distinguished from
success.

Use regs_return_value() to negate the error code if $a3 is set.

Fixes: 1d7bf993e073 ("MIPS: ftrace: Add support for syscall tracepoints.")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.ho...@imgtec.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-m...@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16651/
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rost...@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <r...@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -927,7 +927,7 @@ asmlinkage void syscall_trace_leave(stru
        audit_syscall_exit(regs);
 
        if (unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT)))
-               trace_sys_exit(regs, regs->regs[2]);
+               trace_sys_exit(regs, regs_return_value(regs));
 
        if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE))
                tracehook_report_syscall_exit(regs, 0);


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