In some cases during a threaded core dump not all the threads will have a full register set. This will cause problems when the sigkill is sent to the thread Signed-off-by: Mike Wolf <m...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> -------
--- ptrace-signal.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c 2011-02-20 12:15:57.000000000 -0600 +++ ptrace-signal/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c 2011-02-21 12:39:17.000000000 -0600 @@ -234,11 +234,23 @@ if (target->thread.regs == NULL) return -EIO; - CHECK_FULL_REGS(target->thread.regs); - ret = user_regset_copyout(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, - target->thread.regs, - 0, offsetof(struct pt_regs, msr)); + if (!FULL_REGS(target->thread.regs)) { + ret = user_regset_copyout(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, + target->thread.regs, + 0, sizeof(long)*PT_R14); + if (!ret) + ret = user_regset_copyout_poison(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, + sizeof(long)*PT_R14, offsetof(struct pt_regs, nip)); + if (!ret) + ret = user_regset_copyout(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, + target->thread.regs, + offsetof(struct pt_regs, nip), offsetof(struct pt_regs, msr)); + + } else + ret = user_regset_copyout(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, + target->thread.regs, + 0, offsetof(struct pt_regs, msr)); if (!ret) { unsigned long msr = get_user_msr(target); ret = user_regset_copyout(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, &msr, @@ -645,11 +657,24 @@ if (target->thread.regs == NULL) return -EIO; - CHECK_FULL_REGS(target->thread.regs); - pos /= sizeof(reg); count /= sizeof(reg); + if(!FULL_REGS(target->thread.regs)) { + if (kbuf) { + for (; count > 0 && pos < PT_R14; --count) + *k++ = regs[pos++]; + for (; count > 0 && pos < PT_R31; --count,pos++) + *k++ = 0xdeadbeef; + } else { + for (; count > 0 && pos < PT_R14; --count) + if (__put_user((compat_ulong_t) regs[pos++], u++)) + return -EFAULT; + for (; count > 0 && pos < PT_R31; --count,pos++) + if (__put_user((compat_ulong_t) 0xdeadbeef, u++)) + return -EFAULT; + } + } if (kbuf) for (; count > 0 && pos < PT_MSR; --count) *k++ = regs[pos++]; --- ptrace-signal.orig/include/linux/regset.h 2011-02-20 12:15:57.000000000 -0600 +++ ptrace-signal/include/linux/regset.h 2011-02-21 12:39:17.000000000 -0600 @@ -240,6 +240,32 @@ } return 0; } +static inline int user_regset_copyout_poison(unsigned int *pos, + unsigned int *count, + void **kbuf, void __user **ubuf, + const int start_pos, + const int end_pos) +{ + long poison_data[17] = { [0 ... 16] = 0xdeadbeefdeadbeefUL }; + + if (*count == 0) + return 0; + BUG_ON(*pos < start_pos); + if (end_pos < 0 || *pos < end_pos) { + unsigned int copy = (end_pos < 0 ? *count + : min(*count, end_pos - *pos)); + if (*kbuf) { + memset(*kbuf, 0xdeadbeef, copy); + *kbuf += copy; + } else if (__copy_to_user(*ubuf,poison_data, copy)) + return -EFAULT; + else + *ubuf += copy; + *pos += copy; + *count -= copy; + } + return 0; +} static inline int user_regset_copyin(unsigned int *pos, unsigned int *count, const void **kbuf, _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev